The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

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 ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

Oliver Cromwell once seized the land under this house, which included the ruins of a medieval abbey that the owner used to build his stately home.

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

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

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

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

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

There might not be much left of these Irish ruins, but their linguistic legacy is still going strong.