These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

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

A fantastic reconstruction of a 10th-century Viking longhouse.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

This secluded Iceland farm holds the collected works of one rural sculptor's creations.

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.

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

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

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

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

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

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

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

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

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

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.