This oceanside Reykjavik spot is speckled with recycled sculptures and large stones.

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

Iceland's first pagan temple in 1,000 years is underway in Reykjavík.

This secluded Iceland farm holds the collected works of one rural sculptor's creations.

Outlaws, hot springs, and tragedy have all left their mark on this ancient road in the Icelandic highlands.

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

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

The oldest (maybe) swimming pool in Iceland is a stunning oasis built into the side of a lush hill.

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

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

A mud brick kasbah with a history of lavishness and traitorship.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

This museum is filled with an eclectic collection of unique inventions.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

Home to a full-scale replica of the Ezekiel Airship, an aircraft that allegedly flew in 1902—a year before the Wright brothers took to the skies over Kitty Hawk.

Trees emerge from the surface of this small man-made reservoir.

This poured-concrete water reservoir is a gem of modernist architecture well-hidden in a city forest.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

This open-air, narrow-gauge railway museum pays homage to the region's transportation history.

This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.