Places stonoceno Wants to Go

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

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

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

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This scenic Icelandic lava flow is named for a pair of Berserkers who were murdered, according to a famous Saga.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

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

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

One woman's lifelong collection is on display in this unassuming house on an Icelandic fjord.

Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.

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

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

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

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.

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

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

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