Places Olndskan Wants to Go

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

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

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

Iceland's first pagan temple in 1,000 years is underway in Reykjavík.

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

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

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

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

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

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

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

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.

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

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

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

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

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

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

The largest of Denmark's seven mysterious round churches stands on an island in the Baltic Sea.

These old World War II fortifications have been transformed into an unusual equine attraction.

When this Iron Age bog body was discovered in 1835, it was thought that she had died recently.

Denmark’s never-ending bridge.

A public display of random paleontology.