Europe’s most powerful hot spring supplies the surrounding region with hot water.

Instead of solid circles, the stoplights in this northern Icelandic town have glowing red hearts.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

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

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

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

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.

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

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

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

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

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

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

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

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

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

A trio of hidden hot tubs takes advantage of Iceland's natural geothermal vents.

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.