Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Travelers can visit the same landscapes that NASA astronauts trained on before their inaugural spacewalk. Courtesy Hörður ...

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 ...

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

Iceland is a country of extremes. It’s an otherworldly place bordering on the supernatural where the threat of deadly volcanic eruption looms over all life as the country grows two centimetres apart ...

When we dream, people we know from our waking life often turn up in unusual places, doing things we never expected. Real life is a lot like that in the tiny town of Neskaupstadur, nestled in the ...

Iceland is a large country with rough terrain, but it's managed to cultivate an extensive culture filled with automotive enthusiasts and unique races.

“Flying in over the black sand beaches and lava fields, I could see that Iceland had the rugged and unusual look we needed. “ Clint Eastwood’s description of his first encounter with the location for ...

“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 ...