Places amandajaneshaw Wants to Go

An unusual building on a "desolate hill" features the works of an Icelandic sculptor.

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

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

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

This collection of several museums includes one of the oldest structures in Iceland.

Inside this museum, visitors venture through ghost stories entrenched in Icelandic folklore.

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

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

Climbing Iceland's highest peak on the rim of the Oræfajökull volcano.

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

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

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

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

Largest private bird collection in Iceland, formed from a tragic accident.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

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

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.

A swirling spectrum of stained glass dazzles visitors who enter this subway station.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.