Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

Climb right into the heart of this colorful Iceland volcano.

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

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

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

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

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

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

A modern artist's primitive stone faces and unique rock instrument join Iceland's terrain with its history.

The oldest church in Iceland is one of the few to feature ornate decoration.

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

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

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.