Places cattbertt Wants to Go

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

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

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

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

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

A Wes Anderson-esque lighthouse that boasts magnificent coastal views.

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

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

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

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

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

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

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

The final resting place of the controversial chess champion.

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

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

A tribute to the successful role of the Keflavik Naval Air Station in the defense of Iceland, United States and NATO Alliance.

The Hveragerði fissure runs through this unassuming shopping center.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

A geothermal paradise with bubbling mud pools and bright blue hot springs.