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

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

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

Two massive boulders, rocking back and forth with the ebbing of the sea.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

Despite finally receiving electricity in 1970, this tiny town is now deserted.

This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

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

A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

The oldest hall in Iceland was written of in the Sagas and features a centuries-old escape tunnel.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

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

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

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

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

The medieval "dragon" on an Austrian city's coat-of-arms comes to life in a fountain.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

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