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Iceland: home to volcanoes, waterfalls and, apparently, Santa?

Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.

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

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.

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

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

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

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

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

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

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

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

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

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

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

This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.

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

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

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

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

A trio of hidden hot tubs takes advantage of Iceland's natural geothermal vents.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

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