Iceland is a small country, about one quarter larger than Ireland or about the size of the U.S. state of Ohio. It sits on the edge of the Arctic Circle in the North Atlantic. Most of its 300,000 ...

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 ...

Some scenes of Game of Thrones were shot here,” my host tells me casually. There is not a shred of disbelief in me as I look around; the area’s landscape is beyond anything any TV series can conjure ...

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’s epic vistas, vast glaciers, soft light and ominous volcanoes make beautiful abstract art in Emmanuel Coupe-Kalomiris’s aerial photos. He's made striking visuals out of the island’s natural ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — It has doubled as an alien planet, a Himalayan peak and even the snow-filled fantasy world of the “Game of Thrones.” Still recovering from financial collapse, Iceland can perhaps ...

Berkeley-based painter John Zurier’s first solo museum exhibition, Matrix 255, on view at the Berkeley Art Museum, includes twenty-two new paintings that demonstrate a subtle effect on the viewer, ...

It's not just Iceland's football team that's easy on the eye. With winter's frozen grip tightening, Boston-born photographer Zack Seckler captured incredible images of Iceland's frosty landscape. In ...

A combination of tax breaks and photogenic scenery has led to a boom of American productions utilizing Iceland’s unique landscape. In cases like “Prometheus,” “Oblivion” and Christopher Nolan’s ...

Filmmakers are heading to Iceland for the Reykjavik International film festival that started this week, and for the unique landscapes appearing in Hollywood blockbusters, says Michael Howie Natural ...