From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

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

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.

Europe’s most powerful hot spring supplies the surrounding region with hot water.

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

This excellent museum recreates the boom days of the herring rush in the "Atlantic Klondike."

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

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

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

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

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

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

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

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

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.

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