Places rojber Wants to Go

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

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

Climb right into the heart of this colorful Iceland volcano.

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

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

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

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

A centuries-old bar once frequented by Picasso, Hemingway, and Dalí.

A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

Small museum dedicated to the founder of electromagnetic theory.

This 16th-century close preserves an unusual piece of Edinburgh's transportation history.

The building where Mary, Queen of Scots was said to have bathed in white wine.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

Edinburgh’s version of the Sistine Chapel is this former church, with an interior covered in paintings done by one woman over the course of nearly a decade.

A former telephone box found new life as a photo booth and charity fundraiser.

Neon artworks light up this dark Edinburgh tunnel.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

This allegedly haunted 16th-century tower house-turned-museum exhibits thousands of spectacular objects.

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.