Roses and other fascinating flora fill this garden built to commemorate Britain's immortal Bard.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

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

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

The oldest (maybe) swimming pool in Iceland is a stunning oasis built into the side of a lush hill.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

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

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

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.