The huge granite obelisk that towers over a small California town.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

An impressive collection of farm equipment and other artifacts from life on the prairie.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

An Irish town has built a statue to a silent film actor simply thanks to the holidays he once spent there.

The ruins of an 800-year-old monastery boasts the tallest round tower in Ireland.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

See some of the world's greatest racing horses at this idyllic thoroughbred breeding facility and garden complex.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

Amidst the bustling streets of Dublin, there is a hushed garden that is dedicated to "All those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom."

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.