Places Edited by aribrown

The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

The rusted remains of a victim of Hurricane Ike.

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

A well-preserved 2nd century fort where moles are the archaeologists.

Underground hospital complex constructed by slave laborers during the German occupation of the Channel Islands.

A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

A steamer run aground near Bimini lives a second life as a playground for scuba divers.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

You may get stranded and everyone's peeing in the water, but at least there's cocktails!

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

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

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

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

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

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

A "simple-hearted artist" turned an isolated Icelandic valley into his own art museum.

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

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

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

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

These eclectic homes nestled into the cliffs of a Caribbean island were built entirely from scavenged materials.

Home of the "true" equator.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.