Iceland is the country I keep finding excuses to go back to. Four trips between 2015 and 2024 — each one a different angle on the same place.
The first was Iceland as a stop on a longer European loop in 2015, then a dedicated four days in Reykjavik in March 2016 — snorkeling at Silfra between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates in a dry suit, my first helicopter ride over the lava fields, and (yes) the Phallological Museum. That's the trip that made Iceland one of my most-visited countries.
Then a Scandinavian loop in 2018, and finally the full Ring Road in 2024 — five days, four hotels, more waterfalls than I could count. The south coast at Reynisfjara, the long remote drive east to Egilsstaðir, whale watching at Húsávik, and the Snæfellsnes peninsula on the last day, which felt like a month compressed into one drive.
Iceland is small enough to drive around in a week and big enough that I still haven't seen all of it.