This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

For more than two centuries, this family-run establishment has been serving up some of Ireland's best oysters.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

This former hub for crafty philosophers was founded by a writer who died aboard the infamous RMS Lusitania.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

This sprawling collection hides many charms.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Watch cheese-flipping robots in action at this factory and museum.

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

The ruins of a sixth-century monastery sit on the banks of the River Shannon.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

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

The world’s first museum dedicated to exploring human rights unleashed a wave of controversy.

The alley connecting two of country music’s most historic venues has a rich history of its own.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.