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

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

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

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

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

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

After the devastating 2011 earthquake, historic Christchurch begins to recover, starting with the pop-up Re:START mall.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

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

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

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

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

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.