Vík í Mýrdal

The Black Sand Beach is famous with its basalt stacks and black lava sands. Here you can also admire the impressive Reynisdrangar rock formations and view the Dýrhólaey peninsula not far away. For those that are into bird watching, they can see the puffins nesting in the mountain in the summer. This beach is perhaps the most dangerous in Iceland and there have been many fatalities caused by "sneaker waves" (waves that sweep in much further into the beach than onlookers would expect) sweeping people out to sea.

The abandoned wreck of a U.S. Navy plane that had to make an emergency landing here in 1973. Follow the path that starts at a gate on the south side of the main road

Abandoned turf houses, built into the landscape. When Iceland was first settled about 1,000 years ago, people used to build turf houses to live in. Turf houses are essentially semi-underground homes with a grassy roof. The Icelanders built them by building a foundation from flat stones, adding a wooden frame of birch or driftwood, and covering it all with layers of earth. Turf houses have a door as an entrance and occasionally windows, with a small ventilation hole in the roof. It is not safe to enter the turf houses though.

A beautiful 30-metre (98-ft) high waterfall. During the summertime, you can even walk behind Kvernufoss in order to really feel its intensity! It's a 20-minute walk from behind the Skógar Museum.

A show featuring a recreation of a volcanic eruption. Real lava is superheated live. Book tickets through their web site.

At 60 meters tall (200 feet) and 25 meters wide (80 feet), this is one of the tallest waterfalls in Iceland. The water produces so much spray that it is common to see rainbows on sunny days. Be prepared to get wet from all of the spray! There is an optional 527-step staircase leading to a view from atop the waterfall. From there, it is possible to hike to another nearby waterfall, Hestavaðsfoss. In the final season of the television series Game of Thrones, two of the characters fly atop a dragon to Skógafoss and kiss by the waterfall.

An outlet glacier of the huge icecap of Mýrdalsjökull. It is probably the most accessible glacier in South Iceland, located just off of the Ring Road. It is also shrinking rapidly each year, as evidenced by the glacier lagoon at its base, which increases by the length of an Olympic swimming pool each year.

A massive cave formed in a volcanic eruption underneath a glacier over 100,000 years ago. It gets its name because its opening looks like the character Yoda from the Star Wars movies. The cave itself was featured in Star Wars Rogue. There are also ruins of a former farm, and look for a small waterfall in one of the hills.