The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.

One of the most remarkable caves in all of Iceland was created by a once raging river of lava.

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

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

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

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

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

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

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

Climbing Iceland's highest peak on the rim of the Oræfajökull volcano.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.