After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making a daily loaf of sourdough in its shape.

This is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first cemetery museum in the world.

This Neolithic passage tomb forms part of a World Heritage Site.

The chaotic studio of one of the 20th century's most important artists has been preserved down to the dust.

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

This 5,300-year-old tomb with mysterious carvings crowns an Irish mountain.

This natural sea arch highlights Ireland's rugged coastal beauty.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.

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

This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.

This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.

A spectacular hidden beach in Ireland has the dark, disturbing nickname of "Murder Hole Beach."

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

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

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

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

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

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

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

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.