A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

An oddly conical beacon perched atop beautiful Irish cliffs.

This modest plaza in Moneygall, Ireland has cashed in on its distant connection to the U.S. president.

This small Irish village suffered the greatest loss of life when the Titanic sank.

An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.

This natural sea arch highlights Ireland's rugged coastal beauty.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

A spectacular hidden beach in Ireland has the dark, disturbing nickname of "Murder Hole Beach."

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

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

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.