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

This museum is dedicated to the most famous Irish writers in history.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

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

Traveling this mountain pass reveals quaint stone buildings, stunning Irish scenery, and a bridge said to grant wishes.

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

An Irish peat mine has become a stunning sculpture park.

This World War II relic let Allied pilots know they were entering neutral airspace.

Modern sundial uses ancient methods to tell time and date perfectly.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

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

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

This controversial Irish show cave is home to a massive formation known as the Great Stalactite.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

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

An important pilgrimage site for pagans and early Christians, named for a Celtic goddess-turned-saint.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

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

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

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

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

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.