This excellent museum recreates the boom days of the herring rush in the "Atlantic Klondike."

This wild explosion of color on a disused water tower tells the whimsical tale of a curious puffin.

This oceanside Reykjavik spot is speckled with recycled sculptures and large stones.

The final resting place of the controversial chess champion.

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

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

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

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

This plaque tells the story of an event that took place in an imagined parallel universe.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

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

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

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

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

This secluded Iceland farm holds the collected works of one rural sculptor's creations.

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

Largest private bird collection in Iceland, formed from a tragic accident.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

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

This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.

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

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

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

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