Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

A winding, blood-red tunnel of hardened lava navigable by foot.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

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

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

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

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

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

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

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

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

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

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.