Dublin's most modern, visually spectacular bridge is modeled after Ireland's national emblem.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

Amidst the bustling streets of Dublin, there is a hushed garden that is dedicated to "All those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom."

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

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

The ruins of a medieval monastery named after a type of tree.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

At the center of this cemetery stands a 2,000-year-old burial mound of the Adena culture.

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.