Places AlexOnAdventure Wants to Go

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.

Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.

This scenic Icelandic lava flow is named for a pair of Berserkers who were murdered, according to a famous Saga.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

Outlaws, hot springs, and tragedy have all left their mark on this ancient road in the Icelandic highlands.

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.

Two volcanic lakes in an enormous crater formed in a prehistoric eruption.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

This mountain fissure hides a secret path to a secluded mossy grotto within the rock itself.

This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

The oldest (maybe) swimming pool in Iceland is a stunning oasis built into the side of a lush hill.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.