Iceland Abandoned dairy farm in Iceland When new roads were mapped out in Iceland in the late 1940s, it made for much better accessibility to Krýsuvík, a region full of geothermal fields and a dreamed agricultural area with vast fields where sheep had been herded for centuries.
Iceland Iceland's abandoned farms In the westernmost corner of Iceland's Snæfellsnes peninsula, at the foot of the Snæfellsjökull volcano, lies the concrete skeleton of the abandoned farm Dagverðará.
Iceland British trawler's wrecks A stormy night ended dramatically for the crew of a British trawler on March 13, 1948. Their ship crashed off the rocky coast of Dritvik in western Iceland.
Iceland Washed-away bridge in Iceland The eruption of Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano in November 1996 initially went unnoticed because it occurred under one of Europe's largest glaciers.
Iceland Wreckage of crashed C-47 SkyTrain On November 21, 1973, the American plane C-47 SkyTrain made an emergency landing on the beach south of Iceland due to bad weather and fuel shortages.
Iceland Collapsed bridge near Fjallsárlón Glacier The ring road route around Iceland once skirted the smaller glacial lake Fjallsarlon, but now only the bridge pillars remain.
Iceland Abandoned Botnsskáli roadside restaurant The abandoned Botnsskáli roadside restaurant was once one of the most popular stops along Iceland's heavily traveled Ring Road. Now, no one stops in this godforsaken place anymore.
6 remnants of the Battle of Berlin The fierce Battle of Berlin was the final fight at the end of World War II. The bloody confrontation, from mid-April to early May 1945, brought the Nazi regime to its knees and ended World War II.