Fluffy and friendly alpacas nestled against the border of the beautiful Connemara region.

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

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

A small park commemorates the departure of the first-ever successful transatlantic balloon voyage.

The “Grand Canyon of Maine” is a three-mile gorge full of striking geological features.

This ancient Irish religious site is covered in ancient carvings, many of which have barely aged.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

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

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

Mounds of fine golden sand that can rise nearly 500 feet tall.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

Made from local Irish moss, this pie is served only in Prince Edward Island's potato museum.

While this is positively the smallest library in Canada, it aspires to be the smallest in the world.

Rusty red sands line the shores of this Canadian Province.

Alongside a scenic road are the remains of crumbling World War II gun emplacement.

This huge 12-foot concrete moose on the coast of Nova Scotia is the grandest of the sculptor's giant creatures.

No one knows the origins of the mysterious stone ruins discovered on a hillside in Halifax.

On the waterfront of Sydney, Nova Scotia, a 60-ft. fiddle greets incoming ships.