 Christmas Island Location: The Indian Ocean Weather: It's nice out History: Christmas Island is just 52 square miles stem to stern -- and most of that is a national park. It's inhabited by an estimated 100 million little red land crabs and sundry other flora and fauna that you won't find anywhere else on the planet. The whole thing is surrounded by a coral reef and the diving is indescribable. You don't want to visit at just any old time, though. The crabs have to migrate to the beach every year -- all 100 million of them -- for purposes of procreation and whatnot. They're not especially intelligent little creatures, so they end up getting into absolutely everything. By the time it's over everyone on the island is tearing their hair out. You'll want to look into that before you book your flight.
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