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

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

These seaside shelters once enjoyed by royalty remain a part of local history.

An unassuming churchyard is the resting place of a pioneering surveyor and reluctant namesake of a mountain.

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

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.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

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

This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.