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Garðskagi is a favourite spot for birdwatching, especially during spring and autumn migrations, and for sunsets that turn the sky orange and pink. On clear winter nights it is a good place to see the northern lights. A small museum and café stand by the lighthouses. Bring warm, windproof clothes, since it is almost always breezy.

The Blue Lagoon is Iceland's most famous geothermal spa, a milky turquoise pool set in a black lava field on the Reykjanes peninsula. The warm, mineral-rich water steams against the cold air, and bathers can apply silica mud masks and sip drinks from the in-water bar. The surrounding landscape is stark and otherworldly.

The Bridge Between Continents is a small footbridge over a rift in the lava landscape of the Reykjanes peninsula. Standing on it, you can symbolically cross from the North American plate to the Eurasian plate in a few steps. The scene is a stretch of rugged, windswept lava, with the ocean in the distance.