Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

This museum covers 10,000 years of Pre-Columbian Latin American history.

Collection of fossils, plants, and ancient animals encased in amber.

An eccentric German artist built this weird and wondrous castle packed with shocking sculptures and alien art.

The site of a popular piano lounge owned by a former world champion boxer is now a place to rent a truck.

The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

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

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

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

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

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

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

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

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

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

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.