Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

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

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The final resting place of the controversial chess champion.

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

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

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.

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

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

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

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

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

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

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

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.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

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

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.