An Icelandic island full of diving birds and legend.

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

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

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

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

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

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

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.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.