This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

Europe's largest dinosaur museum was founded by a passionate autodidact.

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

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

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

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

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

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

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

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

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

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

This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.

The location of this historic castle was inspired by a donkey.

This giant geoglyph of mysterious origins is now the site of neo-pagan rituals.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

The highest lighthouse in Scotland shines from an abandoned island.

The last manually operated turntable ferry in the world.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.