After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making a daily loaf of sourdough in its shape.

This rare and ancient Christian relic is one of Ireland’s oldest freestanding stone crosses.

This is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first cemetery museum in the world.

Ireland's only German military cemetery holds the remains of a spy who was moved there under the cover of darkness.

The chaotic studio of one of the 20th century's most important artists has been preserved down to the dust.

This 14th century tower house was once the home of Irish poet W.B. Yeats.

The highest peak in Northern Ireland is topped with a stone tower and haunting burial mounds.

This Italian-style temple replica has been threatening to fall off the Irish coast for hundreds of years.

A monument to a 19th-century Irish woman whose murder inspired several literary works.

This cemetery overlooking the Benbulben rock formation is the final resting place of one of Ireland's most beloved poets.

A massive Celtic cross secretly growing in an Irish forest.

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

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.

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

Local legend says the remains of Father Christmas lie within the medieval grounds.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

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

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

This ancient Irish religious site is covered in ancient carvings, many of which have barely aged.