A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

These moss-covered medieval ruins tower atop the smallest of Ireland's Aran Islands.

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.

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

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

The childhood home of Henry Jones Jr. is now an adventure-themed bed and breakfast.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.