Places franzimutzel Wants to Go

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

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

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

A black sand beach where glacial fragments wash ashore and look like sparkling diamonds.

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

One of the oldest family businesses in Reykjavík serves lamb-based hot dogs.

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

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

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

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

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.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant