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

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

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

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

Only through deep darkness and tragedy did this elaborate royal palace become a sacred temple.

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

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 tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.

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

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

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

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.

The oldest church in Iceland is one of the few to feature ornate decoration.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.