A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Legend has it these two stones are petrified trolls.

This collection of several museums includes one of the oldest structures in Iceland.

This museum explores how a 1973 volcanic eruption forever changed this small Icelandic island.

Two whaling vessels that were sunk by an anti-whaling organization in 1986 now sit on the shore of this beautiful fjord.

A little-known, yet charming glacial lagoon.

A geothermal pool in North Iceland that is said to be the bathing spot of the legendary Grettir the Strong.

A geothermal paradise with bubbling mud pools and bright blue hot springs.

A black sand beach where glacial fragments wash ashore and look like sparkling diamonds.

The exhibition explores the Icelandic city's Viking Age history.

This former farm In northern Iceland is now a museum, where visitors can tour beautifully-preserved turf houses.

The Hveragerði fissure runs through this unassuming shopping center.

A replica of the decorated wooden pillars Viking sailors threw overboard when finding new places to establish a settlement.

One of the oldest family businesses in Reykjavík serves lamb-based hot dogs.

This Viking-inspired miniature golf course features a pirate ship and views of Icelandic landscapes.

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

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

This natural rock formation features seemingly unnatural vertical ridges that have been blamed on elves.

On an island south of Iceland, a large volcanic rock formation resembles an elephant.