The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

Modern sundial uses ancient methods to tell time and date perfectly.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A strange egg in a mucky bog of western Ireland marks the spot of an aviation milestone.

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

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

This controversial Irish show cave is home to a massive formation known as the Great Stalactite.

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

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

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

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

A remarkably intact castle that once was the largest in Ireland.

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin's lost medieval wall.

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.