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

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

This tiny cabin was home to one of Iceland's most famous painters and was the only land he ever owned.

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

This plaque tells the story of an event that took place in an imagined parallel universe.

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

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

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

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

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

This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.

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

A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

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

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

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

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

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

Two volcanic lakes in an enormous crater formed in a prehistoric eruption.

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

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.