In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

Iceland's first pagan temple in 1,000 years is underway in Reykjavík.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

This natural rock formation features seemingly unnatural vertical ridges that have been blamed on elves.

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.

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

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

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

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

Iceland: home to volcanoes, waterfalls and, apparently, Santa?

Climbing Iceland's highest peak on the rim of the Oræfajökull volcano.

This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.

This scenic Icelandic lava flow is named for a pair of Berserkers who were murdered, according to a famous Saga.

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

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.