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

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

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

The oldest public library in Ireland.

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

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

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

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

This ancient Irish religious site is covered in ancient carvings, many of which have barely aged.

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

A collection of housewares from recent Irish history adjoined by a tower from ancient Irish history.

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

See some of the world's greatest racing horses at this idyllic thoroughbred breeding facility and garden complex.

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

A rocky Irish outcropping with a history of wealth, conflict, and ruin.

The oldest licensed distillery in Ireland.

An 1814 castle that hosts an exhibit of "explorabilia".

This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

Modern-day cave dwellers carve elaborate homes out of volcanic debris.

Iranian tombstones shaped like male and female sexual organs.

Burial site of a Jewish prophet revered in Iran.

This beautiful system of tunnels built into natural rock serves as a centuries old plumbing system.

This circular Iranian jail was once a political prison run by the country's secret police.