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This Portland shop is brimming with natural wonders, local art, and handmade goods fashioned from recycled materials.

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

This functioning parish church is also the site of many concert performances due to its wonderful acoustics.

The world's northernmost ice hotel.

Journey through a bit of nostalgia inside this classic record and video store.

This wild explosion of color on a disused water tower tells the whimsical tale of a curious puffin.

A fantastic reconstruction of a 10th-century Viking longhouse.

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

One woman's lifelong collection is on display in this unassuming house on an Icelandic fjord.

This plaque tells the story of an event that took place in an imagined parallel universe.

Iceland's first pagan temple in 1,000 years is underway in Reykjavík.

This elderly couple's hand-picked collection of rare gems is one of the finest in all of Iceland.

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

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

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.

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

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