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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

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

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

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

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

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

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

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

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.

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