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

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

A British plaque explains that a house was built using the spoils of the first international golf bet.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.