This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

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

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

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

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

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

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

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

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

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

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

Native Australian lizards inhabit this garden celebrating Sydney and its sister city in China.