A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This Copper beech tree nestled on a nature reserve is host to a bevy of autographs from Irish literary icons.

An Irish peat mine has become a stunning sculpture park.

A former fortified tower now houses a collection of classic communications equipment.

A teddy bear sits on a chair watching the sunset from the mountaintop—just as the late Dan Clancy had done since childhood.

Fluffy and friendly alpacas nestled against the border of the beautiful Connemara region.

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

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

Ancient Bronze Age rampart that was used into the middle ages.

A Neolithic passage tomb said to have sheltered two legendary Irish lovers.

A mysterious Neolithic tomb is perched along the edge of a modern golf course.

After it was swallowed by a Georgian mansion, this medieval castle remained forgotten for centuries.

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

Impressive mining ruins overlook a spectacular view of Ireland's Copper Coast.

This Bronze Age tomb is the centerpiece of a clearing within a beautiful Irish forest.

An abandoned faux-pub made famous by a Guinness commercial.

A stone wall that mysteriously moved three feet from its foundation.

An ancient holy well said to be used by the patron saint of sailors and travelers, lost in the boggy west of Valentia Island.

Catholics make up 84% of Ireland's population but this Dublin museum remembers the small but important Jewish community.

An ancient chamber filled with wonderful rock art and a Neolithic carving of a human face.