This excellent museum recreates the boom days of the herring rush in the "Atlantic Klondike."

A fantastic reconstruction of a 10th-century Viking longhouse.

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

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

The final resting place of the controversial chess champion.

This oceanside Reykjavik spot is speckled with recycled sculptures and large stones.

A world-class theater sits hidden in this remote town in West Iceland.

This verdant, tree-lined Reykjavik graveyard is both enchanting and eerie.

Discover the magic in the mundane in Iceland's Museum of Everyday Life.

This tiny cabin was home to one of Iceland's most famous painters and was the only land he ever owned.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

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

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

One woman's lifelong collection is on display in this unassuming house on an Icelandic fjord.

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

This plaque tells the story of an event that took place in an imagined parallel universe.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

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

A "simple-hearted artist" turned an isolated Icelandic valley into his own art museum.

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

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

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

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