Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

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

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

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

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

A winding, blood-red tunnel of hardened lava navigable by foot.

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

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

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

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

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

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

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

This secret cemetery where no flag is allowed to fly holds the bodies of American soldiers convicted of heinous crimes during WWII.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.