Haiti

Haiti is the half of Hispaniola that was recently voted "Most Likely to Spontaneously Disappear into the Caribbean Without the Slightest Warning" by a panel of experts in a Radison hotel ballroom somewhere. Haiti was founded in 1804 by former slaves who boldly rose up and threw off the shackles of the French, only to throw on the shackles of disease, crippling poverty, and basically merciless destruction from every possible direction. Almost nothing in this country's history has not been a bummer. The "capital" is Port-au-Prince, a really big, mashed-up mound of concrete on the western face of the island.

Anderson Cooper, CNN anchor/mayor of Port-au-Prince.