An Icelandic island full of diving birds and legend.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

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

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.