Places zelmizeta Wants to Go

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

This Viking-inspired miniature golf course features a pirate ship and views of Icelandic landscapes.

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

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 summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

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

The final resting place of the controversial chess champion.

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

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

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

A fantastic reconstruction of a 10th-century Viking longhouse.

Once the site of a 12-century monastery, this tiny island is now home to only five permanent residents.

A Wes Anderson-esque lighthouse that boasts magnificent coastal views.

This excellent museum recreates the boom days of the herring rush in the "Atlantic Klondike."

Europe’s most powerful hot spring supplies the surrounding region with hot water.

Discover the magic in the mundane in Iceland's Museum of Everyday Life.

This wild explosion of color on a disused water tower tells the whimsical tale of a curious puffin.

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

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

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

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

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

An Icelandic island full of diving birds and legend.