Up now: Reykjavik's annual Arts Festival, featuring a variety of visual, performance and multimedia artworks. (Yes, suddenly ubiquitous artist Ólafur Elíasson curated an exhibit.) Among the works featured is Atlantis (pictured) by Tea Mäkipää and Halldór Úlfarsson, a house installed in the city's pond that has working lights and broadcasts sounds from its interior—everything from singing to arguing. Too avant-garde? Take in some natural history in Húsavík, a small town to the capital's north, at the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which hosts a collection of male reproductive organs (among them a 154-pound specimen from a sperm whale). Hey, it's got to be more interesting than listening to Sigur Rós.