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

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

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

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.