The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

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

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.

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

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

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

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.

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

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

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.