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

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

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

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

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

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.

A winding, blood-red tunnel of hardened lava navigable by foot.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

A series of sculptures depict the actors who starred in the many cowboy movies shot in this Mexican city.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

This canyon is comprised of gorgeous waters and magnificent basalt columns.

Instead of solid circles, the stoplights in this northern Icelandic town have glowing red hearts.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

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

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

This quirky roadside attraction provides insight into Minnesota's logging history.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

A stone face watches over the river.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.