What to see: Traces of Viking heritage are all over Iceland—the country even has a Viking trail you can follow—but for a good look, head to the Settlement Museum in downtown Reykjavik.

Objects from Viking life, like these drinking horns, are on display at the National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik. (Paul Ross) An excellent place to begin is the National Museum of Iceland in ...

Iceland’s Viking heritage and modern culture shine through its diverse museums. ... The Maritime Museum is on Reykjavik’s waterfront.

The adjacent Fram Museum holds the 125-foot, steam- and sail-powered ship that took modern-day “Vikings” Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen deep into the Arctic and Antarctic, farther north ...

A legendary 1 000-year-old Viking Age farm, home of Snorri Thorfinnsson, the Norse folk legend hero, has been discovered by Californian archeologists in a hay field northern Iceland. The discovery ...