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

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

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

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

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

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.

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

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

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

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

These secluded and abandoned anti-aircraft defenses have become one the most scenic viewpoints in Barcelona.

One of Europe's largest supercomputers is housed inside of a disused chapel.