Climbing Iceland's highest peak on the rim of the Oræfajökull volcano.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

This mountain fissure hides a secret path to a secluded mossy grotto within the rock itself.

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

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

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

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

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

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

This historical Netherlands fortress still bears the marks of its single siege.

A Belgian self-built tower inspired by the Bible and ancient civilizations.

This collection of solar timekeepers includes the world's first digital sundial.

Invisible bridge parts the waters, invoking biblical images and preserving the ominous feel of an ancient moat.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.