A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

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

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

On an island south of Iceland, a large volcanic rock formation resembles an elephant.

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

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

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

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

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

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler 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 massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

In 1847, Brigham Young climbed this hill to survey the Salt Lake Valley and saw a fine place to build a city.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

A stone pillar marking the location of the westernmost battle of the American Civil War only honors one side of the conflict.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

At an isolated roadside rest area stands a monument marking where famous Western star Tom Mix died in 1940.

The "Father of Arizona" tried to build a Zoroastrian fire temple on the hill where he's now buried.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.