La Isla Cancún

This guide to La Isla Cancún walks through its odd design bet: instead of another glass mall, a miniature Venice built on the Hotel Zone's lagoon, complete with canals, gondolas and arched bridges. You'll hear the thinking behind importing someone else's postcard city into a resort invented from nothing, plus what waits behind the glass of the Interactive Aquarium and atop the lagoon-side Ferris wheel. Listen from one of the little footbridges, where all three sit in view at once.