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

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

A modern artist's primitive stone faces and unique rock instrument join Iceland's terrain with its history.

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

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

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

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

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

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

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

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

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

A replica of the decorated wooden pillars Viking sailors threw overboard when finding new places to establish a settlement.

One of the most remarkable caves in all of Iceland was created by a once raging river of lava.

Climb right into the heart of this colorful Iceland volcano.

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

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

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

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

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

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

This wild explosion of color on a disused water tower tells the whimsical tale of a curious puffin.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.