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

Every year locals give the bear a fresh coat of paint to preserve its signature goofy grin.

These sculptures honor the knights who once called Carrickfergus Castle their stronghold.

Belfast's namesake river still winds below the city center, hidden from sight.

A giant sculpture of the legendary "Salmon of Knowledge" celebrates the return of fish to Belfast's River Lagan.

The ship built to ferry passengers and goods to the doomed Titanic is now the last remaining White Star Line vessel.

Legend says the water within these mysterious sacred springs stays cold even when boiled.

A boulder in the Churchyard of Down Cathedral marks the legendary burial place of "The Apostle of Ireland."

This beautiful spit of land was once the summer playground of the king of Spain.

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St. John's Precinct and Market.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

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

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.

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.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

These engineering masterpieces are a dominant feature of the Belfast skyline.