Places pleiades Wants to Go

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

A fantastic reconstruction of a 10th-century Viking longhouse.

An Icelandic island full of diving birds and legend.

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

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

Outlaws, hot springs, and tragedy have all left their mark on this ancient road in the Icelandic highlands.

Instead of solid circles, the stoplights in this northern Icelandic town have glowing red hearts.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

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

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

This canyon is comprised of gorgeous waters and magnificent basalt columns.

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

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.

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

Inside this museum, visitors venture through ghost stories entrenched in Icelandic folklore.

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

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

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

Two volcanic lakes in an enormous crater formed in a prehistoric eruption.

This oceanside Reykjavik spot is speckled with recycled sculptures and large stones.

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

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

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

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.