The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Certain traditions prevail on the least-visited island of the Aran Islands.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

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

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.