Places allisoncormier Wants to Go

This collection of unique liquids allows visitors to wander the waters of Iceland's glaciers.

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

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.

Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.

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

Three million year old fossils are exposed for all to see on this Icelandic shore.

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

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

The oldest church in Iceland is one of the few to feature ornate decoration.

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

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

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

A winding, blood-red tunnel of hardened lava navigable by foot.

Climb right into the heart of this colorful Iceland volcano.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

The largest seated Buddha statue in Japan is the centerpiece of an abandoned complex in a quiet, seaside town.

The site where the poet Matsuo Bashō read one of the first haiku that comprise his famous travelogue.

Founded in 1880, this humble brewery still practices a disappearing technique of sake-making.

This quirky little private museum is home to more than a thousand stones, carved by nature, that resemble human faces.