A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

This Viking-inspired miniature golf course features a pirate ship and views of Icelandic landscapes.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

This aromatherapy shop and mini-museum cofounded by the Sigur Rós frontman documents Icelandic history through scents.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

One of the oldest family businesses in Reykjavík serves lamb-based hot dogs.

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

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

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

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

Brick walkways weave through more than 500 palms and cycads, representing 150 species from around the world.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

This concrete sculpture features a woman opening her heart to showcase a beautiful fern.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Some believe Ponce de León's mystical spring lurks right under a public drinking fountain.

In this small strip mall resides the largest collection of original art from the famed TV artist.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

What started as three small gnomes at the base of a tree has grown into a full-blown gnome home.