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While this store carries all sorts of jewelry, it stakes its reputation on gold and silver pieces crafted in tropical motifs. Look for hibiscus, sugar mills, and more.

Walk 1 mile (1.6 km) uphill from Salt Pond Bay across a rocky beach and hills of cacti to a spectacular view. A local favorite on full-moon nights.

Unassuming Randy’s is a local favorite. The menu features imaginative takes on seafood, chicken, and beef entrées.

Busy Red Hook serves as the jumping-off spot for trips to St. John. The ferry dock hums with activity until midnight, when the ferries stop running. The strip of highway that runs through its several blocks is flanked with stores selling just about anything you’d need on an island vacation. You’ll find a grocery store, a pharmacy, a gas station, a place to get your photos developed, a handful of restaurants ranging from take-out Chinese to seafood, and a gift shop or two.

While you can trek the 2.2 miles (3.5 km) from Centerline Road to the ruins at the Reef Bay Plantation by yourself, a Virgin Islands National Park trip provides a boat ride back to Cruz Bay (seeReef Bay Hike).

Classical ballet through to hot pop at the University of the VI arena.

Fine wine, befitting its name, as well as excellent food, including imaginative twists on beef, chicken, and seafood, are served at this fine restaurant (seeRestaurant Bacchus, St. Croix).

A sophisticated ambience, an excellent wine list, and an imaginative menu make for a tempting restaurant choice. Go for dishes such as baked chicken with lemon and rosemary or a pork prime rib with barbecue sauce (seeRestaurant Bacchus).

Made in Haiti, this premium rum comes in many varieties, which depend on the length of aging.

A Tortola-born Quaker, Richard Humphreys’ 1837 bequest of $10,000 funded the US’s first black college, now Cheney University in Pennsylvania.