Considered the birthplace of the Copper Age and Bronze Age, the river is tinted red from 5,000 years of mining.

This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.

A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.

In Faroese legend, this sinister horse-shaped beast lures unsuspecting passersby only to drown them in the lake.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

This narrow fjord-like bay is the largest ria in the Mediterranean Sea.

This heart-shaped island looks substantially less lovely after a recent bulldozing project.

A tribute to an iconic act of defiance from the Croatian War of Independence involving a small car.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

A little-known, yet charming glacial lagoon.

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.

Three million year old fossils are exposed for all to see on this Icelandic shore.

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

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

Climb right into the heart of this colorful Iceland volcano.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.