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Iceland
Reykjavik is the world's most convenient portal to another planet — a compact, colorful capital where you can walk every gallery and coffeehouse by lunch, then stand between tectonic plates, behind a waterfall, or chest-deep in a steaming lagoon by dinner. The city serves the country: whale boats leave the Old Harbour, the Golden Circle's geysers and gorges run as a day loop, the south coast stacks black-sand drama, and from September to April the northern lights make every clear night a lottery ticket. Add the midnight sun's backwards summers and geothermal pools on every corner, and no small city on earth packs more wonder per block.
