Places Maddisonrosie Wants to Go

Submerged busts of communist and socialist figures from the USSR.

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

This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

Three million year old fossils are exposed for all to see on this Icelandic shore.

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

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

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

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

The world's largest rotating world.

The "plyscraper" is the world's tallest building made predominantly out of wood.

An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.

For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.

A museum dedicated to the history of psychiatric treatment featuring a gallery of art made by patients.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.