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

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

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

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

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

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

A modern artist's primitive stone faces and unique rock instrument join Iceland's terrain with its history.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

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

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.