Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

A popular Icelandic children's story comes to life inside this cave.

This abandoned, partly demolished building is now home to beautiful graffiti and murals.

The final resting place of the controversial chess champion.

A replica of the decorated wooden pillars Viking sailors threw overboard when finding new places to establish a settlement.

This aromatherapy shop and mini-museum cofounded by the Sigur Rós frontman documents Icelandic history through scents.

This tiny cabin was home to one of Iceland's most famous painters and was the only land he ever owned.

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

At this museum in Iceland, visitors can sample fermented Greenland shark.

A world-class theater sits hidden in this remote town in West Iceland.

A fantastic reconstruction of a 10th-century Viking longhouse.

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

Instead of solid circles, the stoplights in this northern Icelandic town have glowing red hearts.

This monument to one of the largest science fiction games of all time bears the names of hundreds of thousands of players.

One woman's lifelong collection is on display in this unassuming house on an Icelandic fjord.

This verdant, tree-lined Reykjavik graveyard is both enchanting and eerie.

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

This oceanside Reykjavik spot is speckled with recycled sculptures and large stones.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

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

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

This elderly couple's hand-picked collection of rare gems is one of the finest in all of Iceland.