Places SnotraEldur Wants to Go

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

Three million year old fossils are exposed for all to see on this Icelandic shore.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.

The remains of this castle, known as the Witch’s Eye, watch over the Thur Valley.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

This fascinating museum in an old water tower holds the world's largest collection of Vodou artifacts from western and central Africa.

On an island south of Iceland, a large volcanic rock formation resembles an elephant.

Inside this museum, visitors venture through ghost stories entrenched in Icelandic folklore.

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

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

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

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

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

This astronomically-aligned stone circle was the first of its kind to be built in Great Britain after a 3,000-year hiatus.

This two-legged horse statue celebrates a beloved cartoonist and his quirky characters.

These ruins have been linked to a sherbet factory that exploded, but the story may be entirely fictional.

A mysterious ruin shrouded in more folklore than fact.

Hidden in a Scotland museum is a copse of extinct tree stumps.

Inside this home, the Icelandic national anthem was born.

A sculpture in a secluded garden honors one of Edinburgh's most innovative thinkers and city planners.