Places Lilai Licata Wants to Go

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

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

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

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

This monument to one of the largest science fiction games of all time bears the names of hundreds of thousands of players.

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

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

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.

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

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

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

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

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

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

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

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

Climbing Iceland's highest peak on the rim of the Oræfajökull volcano.

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

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

This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

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

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