Places LeahRumsey Wants to Go

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

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

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

One of the world’s most dangerous roads may be this abandoned shore route in Iceland.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

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

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

The only structure in a remote mountain pass, these colorful cubes are visible from miles away.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

This mountain fissure hides a secret path to a secluded mossy grotto within the rock itself.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

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

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

Once the site of a 12-century monastery, this tiny island is now home to only five permanent residents.

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

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.