A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

The final resting place of the controversial chess champion.

A replica of the decorated wooden pillars Viking sailors threw overboard when finding new places to establish a settlement.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Mining caused an asbestos emergency in this small town.

The "Crow Boat" of Kootenay Lake, sold for a dollar and now on display as "the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler."

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.