Iceland: home to volcanoes, waterfalls and, apparently, Santa?

Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.

An Icelandic island full of diving birds and legend.

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

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

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

Two volcanic lakes in an enormous crater formed in a prehistoric eruption.

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

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

The oldest church in Iceland is one of the few to feature ornate decoration.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

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

A winding, blood-red tunnel of hardened lava navigable by foot.

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

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

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

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