France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Largest private bird collection in Iceland, formed from a tragic accident.

This abandoned, partly demolished building is now home to beautiful graffiti and murals.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

The exhibition explores the Icelandic city's Viking Age history.

Climb right into the heart of this colorful Iceland volcano.

Dozens of large, brightly-colored paintings adorn the walls of the "street art capital of Iceland."

A world-class theater sits hidden in this remote town in West Iceland.

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

This scenic Icelandic lava flow is named for a pair of Berserkers who were murdered, according to a famous Saga.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

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

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

A geothermal pool in North Iceland that is said to be the bathing spot of the legendary Grettir the Strong.

An Icelandic island full of diving birds and legend.

Outlaws, hot springs, and tragedy have all left their mark on this ancient road in the Icelandic highlands.

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

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

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