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What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

One of Chile's most active volcanoes is riddled with beautiful caves.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

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

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

The final resting place of the controversial chess champion.

This excellent museum recreates the boom days of the herring rush in the "Atlantic Klondike."

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

This aromatherapy shop and mini-museum cofounded by the Sigur Rós frontman documents Icelandic history through scents.

At this museum in Iceland, visitors can sample fermented Greenland shark.

This tiny cabin was home to one of Iceland's most famous painters and was the only land he ever owned.

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

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

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

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

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

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

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

A "simple-hearted artist" turned an isolated Icelandic valley into his own art museum.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

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

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

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.