Iceland Airwaves is back for its 24th iteration and as the festival prepares to take over downtown Reykjavík for three days ...

They won’t win any parents of the year contest. The famous puffins of Iceland fly away and leave their little chicks to fend for themselves when they are just six weeks old, explains Mariana Veloso, a ...

As summers get hotter, a new ‘coolcation’ trend is taking off. And there’s one destination that never fails to entice those ...

Photo by Caroline Boden for Thrillist Iceland is Mother Nature’s favorite plaything. This little island nation dangling from the Arctic Circle, with its ethereal geothermal terrain, is always finding ...

Our last full day in Iceland was spent in Reykjavik. This was also the day we had a rental car problem and had to wait for a ...

First there’s a shrill, high-pitched shriek. Then a flurry of white and grey wings as the Arctic tern dive bombs. I squeal ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: While Gullfoss and Þingvellir National Park are the main attractions on this route, do as the locals do and stop by the Friðheimar greenhouses. Friðheimar grows tomatoes and has ...

One benefit of heading to Iceland on the hunt for the aurora is ... range of budget and more luxurious places to stay, as well as puffin-watching on offer. Hotel Vík í Mýrda offers a touch ...

Puffins, dolphins, seals and owls all make seasonal homes here and when I visited, the air was thick with more gannets and fulmars than you might think possible. I hadn’t given much thought to ...

That was the question I faced when my ship, the National Geographic Explorer, was anchored off Borgarfjörðurhöfn, a remote area in eastern Iceland known for its puffin colony. This was one of ...