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A "simple-hearted artist" turned an isolated Icelandic valley into his own art museum.

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

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

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

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

This elderly couple's hand-picked collection of rare gems is one of the finest in all of Iceland.

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

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

This secluded Iceland farm holds the collected works of one rural sculptor's creations.

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

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

Largest private bird collection in Iceland, formed from a tragic accident.

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

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

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

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

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

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

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

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

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

This collection of unique liquids allows visitors to wander the waters of Iceland's glaciers.

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

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