This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

Instead of solid circles, the stoplights in this northern Icelandic town have glowing red hearts.

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

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

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

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

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

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

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

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

This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

The oldest church in Iceland is one of the few to feature ornate decoration.

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

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

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

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.