A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

Dark, eerie exhibits make for a surreal exploration of the subconscious.

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

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

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

This plaque tells the story of an event that took place in an imagined parallel universe.

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

Climb right into the heart of this colorful Iceland volcano.

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

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