Once the site of a 12-century monastery, this tiny island is now home to only five permanent residents.

Europe’s most powerful hot spring supplies the surrounding region with hot water.

A Wes Anderson-esque lighthouse that boasts magnificent coastal views.

This tiny cabin was home to one of Iceland's most famous painters and was the only land he ever owned.

A popular Icelandic children's story comes to life inside this cave.

This aromatherapy shop and mini-museum cofounded by the Sigur Rós frontman documents Icelandic history through scents.

This monument to one of the largest science fiction games of all time bears the names of hundreds of thousands of players.

One woman's lifelong collection is on display in this unassuming house on an Icelandic fjord.

Instead of solid circles, the stoplights in this northern Icelandic town have glowing red hearts.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

Inside this museum, visitors venture through ghost stories entrenched in Icelandic folklore.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

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

A fantastic reconstruction of a 10th-century Viking longhouse.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

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

This verdant, tree-lined Reykjavik graveyard is both enchanting and eerie.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

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

This elderly couple's hand-picked collection of rare gems is one of the finest in all of Iceland.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

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