This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

A replica of the decorated wooden pillars Viking sailors threw overboard when finding new places to establish a settlement.

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

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

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

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.

Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

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

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

The water here is so clear you can see the mysteriously sunken ship from the surface.

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

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

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

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

This monument to one of the largest science fiction games of all time bears the names of hundreds of thousands of players.

A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

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

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

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