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

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.

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

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

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

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

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

In Namibia there is an installation that explores the intertwined linguistics and existential beliefs of an imaginary community.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

Ancient artists in the middle of nowhere.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.