Places Crankstrap Wants to Go

The oldest (maybe) swimming pool in Iceland is a stunning oasis built into the side of a lush hill.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

The final resting place of the controversial chess champion.

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

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

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

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

It's 2 billion years old!

Profile of a sleeping person four kilometers long in 250-meter-high cliffs.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

An experimental forest at the foreground of arboreal science is also the canary in the coal mine for climate change.

Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.

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

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

Once a state-of-the-art tuberculosis treatment spa, these ruins are now ruled by paintball players.

This former estate of a fascist leader is now a burnt out ruin leading to a system of secret tunnels.

The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.