This hushed, intimate garden is the last thing you expect to find on bling-lovin’ Paradise Island, but here it is. The formal, multi-tiered landscape is lined with classical statues depicting great men throughout the ages: Hercules, Napoleon and Roosevelt, to name a few. The garden’s big photo op is the Cloisters , a rectangular stone colonnade built by Augustinian monks in 12th-century France. Huntington Hartford purchased the cloisters from newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and had it shipped piece by piece to the Bahamas. Another don’t-miss is the waterfront gazebo , a popular wedding spot.
