These barriers stand as stark reminders of Northern Ireland's troubled past.

For part of the year, this innovative greenhouse is painted white to keep the plants from getting scorched.

The last Victorian market in Belfast.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

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

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin's lost medieval wall.

This 18th-century fort surrounded by a moat was used to store gun powder and ammunition, and now sits in the middle of a large part in Dublin.

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

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

Though they've since been renamed, these two streets hint at Dublin's darker days.

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

These gigantic skeletons tower over visitors and provide insight into the creatures that once ruled over Ireland.

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