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This plaque tells the story of an event that took place in an imagined parallel universe.

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

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

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

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

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

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

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

This secluded Iceland farm holds the collected works of one rural sculptor's creations.

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

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.

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.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

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

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

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

Iceland: home to volcanoes, waterfalls and, apparently, Santa?

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.

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