Given my well known fascination with graffiti it comes as a surprise to literally zero people that I also enjoy abandoned buildings and broken things in general.  So thanks to the magic of Pinterest, once I saw pictures of this random airplane wreck sitting on a beach in Iceland it made it’s way pretty quickly to the top of my “holy crap I have to see this!” list.

It’s one of Iceland’s most iconic & haunting photography locations. On Saturday Nov 24, 1973 a United States Navy Douglas Super DC-3 airplane was forced to land on Sólheimasandur’s black sand beach in the south of Iceland after experiencing some severe icing.

It was pretty much as cool as I imagined it would be! However, I suppose I also expected it to be a little more secluded. It’s practically on the tourist map at this point. The unofficial parking area was full of rental cars and rental Land Rovers.  It was hard to get a shot of the plane without other people in it. I did see a blog post later where people camp out by the plane and get some awesome shots that way.  I may have to try that if we ever go back in summer!