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

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.

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

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

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

One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.

A massive metal lobster welcomes tourists to a roadside restaurant.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

A monument to the small town of master violin makers and its countless luthiers.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

Everything from a plane to your own two feet are needed to reach this jungle resort.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.