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

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

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

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.

This natural rock formation features seemingly unnatural vertical ridges that have been blamed on elves.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

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

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.

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

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

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

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.

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

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.

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

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

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

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

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

This mountain fissure hides a secret path to a secluded mossy grotto within the rock itself.