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Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

This plaque tells the story of an event that took place in an imagined parallel universe.

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

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

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.

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

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

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

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

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

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

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

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

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

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

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

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

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

A trio of hidden hot tubs takes advantage of Iceland's natural geothermal vents.

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.