The Bobby Fischer Center in Selfoss is devoted to the American chess champion who spent his final years in Iceland and is buried nearby. Displays cover his career, the Cold War-era drama of the 1972 Reykjavík match, and the unusual final chapter that tied him to this quiet south Iceland town.
It is a compact specialist museum, but chess fans will find it worth the stop. For everyone else it works as a curious cultural detour while passing through Selfoss on the Golden Circle or south coast route.