This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Along this wire fence, travelers have been leaving a particular memento since 2012.

This abandoned, partly demolished building is now home to beautiful graffiti and murals.

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

Once the site of a 12-century monastery, this tiny island is now home to only five permanent residents.

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

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

Discover the magic in the mundane in Iceland's Museum of Everyday Life.

This aromatherapy shop and mini-museum cofounded by the Sigur Rós frontman documents Icelandic history through scents.

At this museum in Iceland, visitors can sample fermented Greenland shark.

A fantastic reconstruction of a 10th-century Viking longhouse.

Inside this museum, visitors venture through ghost stories entrenched in Icelandic folklore.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

A "simple-hearted artist" turned an isolated Icelandic valley into his own art museum.

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

Iceland: home to volcanoes, waterfalls and, apparently, Santa?

Iceland's first pagan temple in 1,000 years is underway in Reykjavík.

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

The oldest hall in Iceland was written of in the Sagas and features a centuries-old escape tunnel.

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

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

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

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.