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

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

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

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

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.

Ancient mysterious ruts carved in the bedrock.

This spectacular dome managed to survive after being bombed in World War II, in an event known as the "Miracle of Mosta."

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

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

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.