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

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

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

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

This Bronze Age tomb is the centerpiece of a clearing within a beautiful Irish forest.

An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.

While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.

A diminutive, thousand-year-old church believed to be the smallest in Ireland.

Originally built to monitor fishing, this Victorian tower now educates visitors about the local salmon industry.

At this cozy bar tucked down a hidden Galway backroad, Guinness makes the Gaelic come out.

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

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

At this local mall, visitors are ushered through a 1940s jail exhibit.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.