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

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

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

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

Climb right into the heart of this colorful Iceland volcano.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

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

The oldest hall in Iceland was written of in the Sagas and features a centuries-old escape tunnel.

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

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

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

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.

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 stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

With well over 130 falls and cascades to brag about, Hamilton, Ontario has earned its stripes as the waterfall capital of the world.

Thanks to the building of a life-giving reservoir, part of the Great Wall of China is now a dive site.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

The inspiration for the Patagonia Clothing logo, Cerro Fitz Roy turns pink at sunrise.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.