A modern artist's primitive stone faces and unique rock instrument join Iceland's terrain with its history.

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

Climbing Iceland's highest peak on the rim of the Oræfajökull volcano.

Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

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

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

This scenic Icelandic lava flow is named for a pair of Berserkers who were murdered, according to a famous Saga.

Outlaws, hot springs, and tragedy have all left their mark on this ancient road in the Icelandic highlands.

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.

An Icelandic island full of diving birds and legend.

The oldest hall in Iceland was written of in the Sagas and features a centuries-old escape tunnel.

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

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

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

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

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

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

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.