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

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

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.

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

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

A historic lighthouse steeped in rumors of ghost and pirate stories.

A large camera obscura, constructed entirely from digitally fabricated components.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.