Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

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

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

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

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

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

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The middle finger of modernity.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

A 12,000-year-old bog boasting rare plants and fauna.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.