Governors Beach on Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos, is a popular draw. Ellen Creager / Detroit Free Press

Local cactus in Cockburn Town on Grand Turk island. Ellen Creager / Detroit Free Press

Cockburn Town shops on Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos. Cockburn Town, the capital city of the Turks and Caicos, is really a village. A small collection of attractive but weathered pastel 18th- and 19th-century colonial buildings, it is a shabby-chic version of Bermuda. Ellen Creager / Detroit Free Press