I booked a $6,500 small luxury cruise around Iceland through Windstar. The weeklong trip was a great value and the best way ...

The birds spend most of their lives in the open ocean. Observing birds at sea is nearly impossible, so much about puffins remains a mystery. Ecologists like Erpur Snær Hansen, who leads a team at the ...

Iceland is home to magnificent geological formations, but one of its most unusual natural sights is the Elephant Rock ...

Related stories At Heimaey Island — where puffins nest and a volcano looks down over the village — we drifted off the ship to explore. I hiked and wandered through the city to eat excellent ...

Dining out in Iceland would've really dug into my budget. We also got access to hard-to-reach destinations like Heimaey Island, which would've been very difficult to pull off on my own.