Tap a numbered dot and listen.
The Golden Circle across the rift valley: the Laki eruption that starved Iceland and chilled Europe, the geothermal greenhouses of Hveragerði, the scholars' seat at Skálholt, and Geysir itself — the spout that named every geyser on Earth.
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.