Kvika Footbath

This guide to the Kvika Footbath in Reykjavik corrects an assumption: the warm pool under your feet isn't a wild spring but a basin the Icelandic artist Ólöf Nordal carved from a single block of grey stone in 2005. You'll hear the older story behind the setting too, of the settler Ingólfur Arnarson and the steam that supposedly named this smoky bay. It follows why Nordal named her footbath after magma and fed it from Seltjarnarnes's own boreholes. Sit on the rim and feel the water for yourself.