Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

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

A black sand beach where glacial fragments wash ashore and look like sparkling diamonds.

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.

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

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

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

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

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

One of the oldest family businesses in Reykjavík serves lamb-based hot dogs.

An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

This "tower of death" has acted as an observatory, a religious hub, and an executioner's lair.