Places angellj1976 Wants to Go

A modern artist's primitive stone faces and unique rock instrument join Iceland's terrain with its history.

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

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

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

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

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

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

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

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

The oldest hall in Iceland was written of in the Sagas and features a centuries-old escape tunnel.

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

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

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.

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

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

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

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.

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.

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