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

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

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.

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

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

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

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

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

The oldest hall in Iceland was written of in the Sagas and features a centuries-old escape tunnel.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

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

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

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

Once the site of a 12-century monastery, this tiny island is now home to only five permanent residents.

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

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

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.

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

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

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

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