This aromatherapy shop and mini-museum cofounded by the Sigur Rós frontman documents Icelandic history through scents.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

A memorial to a giant seabird that was hunted to extinction.

This quirky museum celebrates the history of a local cod fishing industry.

This quirky museum will make you question everything, including the shape of the planet.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

An old drug store full of mortars and pestles, pill-making machines, and medicines reputed to cure most any illness.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

Where a young athlete began his run across Canada after losing his right leg to cancer.

This huge ship ran aground and has simply been left to sit there ever since.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

An abandoned amusement park hints at the twisted history of the Newfoundland Railway.

This small Newfoundland town has declared itself the “Root Cellar Capital of the World.”

In the power of this waterfall, Alexander Hamilton saw the potential for industry.

A tribute to one of Bombay's former governors that has withstood the test of time.

The flow from this waterfall sometimes comes out of springs below its rim.

At more than 5,000 years old, these structures are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

A simple memorial between a ball field and a skate park honors 21 men lost in a horrific mining accident.

Alongside a scenic road are the remains of crumbling World War II gun emplacement.

The highest tides in the world come in and out here twice a day, allowing you to essentially walk along the ocean floor.