Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.

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.

Outlaws, hot springs, and tragedy have all left their mark on this ancient road in the Icelandic highlands.

This scenic Icelandic lava flow is named for a pair of Berserkers who were murdered, according to a famous Saga.

An Icelandic island full of diving birds and legend.

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

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

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

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

This collection of unique liquids allows visitors to wander the waters of Iceland's glaciers.

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

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

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

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

Two volcanic lakes in an enormous crater formed in a prehistoric eruption.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

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

Three million year old fossils are exposed for all to see on this Icelandic shore.

This mountain fissure hides a secret path to a secluded mossy grotto within the rock itself.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.

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