Places taylsliotta Wants to Go

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

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

The oldest (maybe) swimming pool in Iceland is a stunning oasis built into the side of a lush hill.

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

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

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

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

One of the most remarkable caves in all of Iceland was created by a once raging river of lava.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

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

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

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

Climb right into the heart of this colorful Iceland volcano.

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 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.