A-Hús

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    Hverfisgata 18, city centre
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Lonely Planet review

Building houses from scraps didn't mean that artistic impulses were squashed - check out A-Hús, from 1906, one of the city's finest examples of wood-and-tin architecture. Its tall turrets are topped by swirling arabesques, and the wooden struts supporting the balconies are carved with whales.

The old town's mid-18th-century houses demonstrate the Icelandic talent for adaptation. In a country devoid of building materials, most are made from driftwood (which floated from Siberia and South America) and covered in sheets of corrugated tin to protect them from the elements.