Travelers can visit the same landscapes that NASA astronauts trained on before their inaugural spacewalk. Courtesy Hörður Sveinsson/Visit Iceland Iceland is full of diverse geography that many say is ...

Much of the volcanic landscape that defines Iceland lies inland and requires deliberate exploration ashore. This is how to ...

Reykjavik Peninsula is home to one of Iceland's oldest lighthouses, built in 1907. The lighthouse is located near the famous ...

Iceland is the Land of Fire and Ice, and never is this taken so literally. Nowhere else do such utter opposites get squeezed ...

Many remote hamlets in Iceland have historical sites that tell the story of the country's past. From ancient turf houses to old churches, these places are a window into how people lived centuries ago ...

For peace and quiet, it's hard to beat Iceland.

Charlotta María Hauksdóttir moved to California from her native Iceland in 2003, and has spent most of the intervening years trying to recapture the landscapes of her childhood. “After I moved away ...

Even after several days on the trail, the environment keeps reminding you of its presence. This isn’t because Iceland is dramatic at every moment. It’s because it removes the layers that usually ...

“IT REMINDED me of a landscape from The Lord of the Rings,” says photographer Feodor Pitcairn, who captured this image of the Laki fissure in southern Iceland. But these highlands weren’t always green ...