One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

Oliver Cromwell once seized the land under this house, which included the ruins of a medieval abbey that the owner used to build his stately home.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.

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

A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.

Ruins battered by centuries of war and disaster offer a wondrous glimpse of medieval Ireland.

Traveling this mountain pass reveals quaint stone buildings, stunning Irish scenery, and a bridge said to grant wishes.

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

Achill's most recently abandoned village dates back to to the Age of Enlightenment.

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

An important pilgrimage site for pagans and early Christians, named for a Celtic goddess-turned-saint.

A standing relief of a Norman knight whose posture marks him as a Crusader.

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

You can see three Irish counties from this Neolithic hillside fort, once the seat of the Kingdom of Ailech.

The home of Ireland's last leprechauns is officially protected by the European Union.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

The oldest licensed distillery in Ireland.

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

Wander among the abandoned ruins of this once-powerful medieval town.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

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

Ireland's most remarkable collection of these curious cone-shaped houses is worth the buzz.