The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

Every January 6, young men dive into Spring Bayou in search of a cross and a year's worth of maritime blessings.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

The giant metal fruit was once the symbol of a large farm.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

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

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

A geothermal paradise with bubbling mud pools and bright blue hot springs.

A relatively obscure antihero from the Marvel Comics universe adorns a wall inside Iceland's main airport.

A tribute to the successful role of the Keflavik Naval Air Station in the defense of Iceland, United States and NATO Alliance.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

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 five-foot-tall bronze bird is a memorial to a species that was hunted out of existence.

Along this wire fence, travelers have been leaving a particular memento since 2012.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

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

Internet rumors, often involving Icelandic singer Björk, have abounded regarding this isolated outcrop of rock.

Legend says this is actually a heartbroken prince waiting for his true love's kiss.

In this town's main square resides a statue of none other than the 43rd President of the United States.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.

One of the best examples of a Byzantine period monument in Albania.