In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

Inside this museum, visitors venture through ghost stories entrenched in Icelandic folklore.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

A relatively obscure antihero from the Marvel Comics universe adorns a wall inside Iceland's main airport.

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

The final resting place of the controversial chess champion.

A replica of the decorated wooden pillars Viking sailors threw overboard when finding new places to establish a settlement.

Along this wire fence, travelers have been leaving a particular memento since 2012.

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

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

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

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

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

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.

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

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

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

A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

This monument to one of the largest science fiction games of all time bears the names of hundreds of thousands of players.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

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

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.