Places kaitdoyle Wants to Go

Europe’s most powerful hot spring supplies the surrounding region with hot water.

This Viking-inspired miniature golf course features a pirate ship and views of Icelandic landscapes.

Discover the magic in the mundane in Iceland's Museum of Everyday Life.

On an island south of Iceland, a large volcanic rock formation resembles an elephant.

A popular Icelandic children's story comes to life inside this cave.

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

This natural rock formation features seemingly unnatural vertical ridges that have been blamed on elves.

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

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

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

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

Largest private bird collection in Iceland, formed from a tragic accident.

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

This verdant, tree-lined Reykjavik graveyard is both enchanting and eerie.

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

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

This collection of unique liquids allows visitors to wander the waters of Iceland's glaciers.

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

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

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

Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.