These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making a daily loaf of sourdough in its shape.

At the time of its construction, this hydroelectric power plant was the largest in the world.

A gated cross stands on the site where an Irish revolutionary met his end.

The remains of a majestic house that was once stood in the crosshairs of the Irish Republican Army.

The burial place of 14 of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising.

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

A former fortified tower now houses a collection of classic communications equipment.

A teddy bear sits on a chair watching the sunset from the mountaintop—just as the late Dan Clancy had done since childhood.

An Irish town has built a statue to a silent film actor simply thanks to the holidays he once spent there.

Ireland's only German military cemetery holds the remains of a spy who was moved there under the cover of darkness.

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

A massive Celtic cross secretly growing in an Irish forest.

This modest plaza in Moneygall, Ireland has cashed in on its distant connection to the U.S. president.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

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

The ruins of a medieval monastery named after a type of tree.

The skeleton of a whale that beached itself in this Irish town is now on display in their public park.

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.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

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

You can see three Irish counties from this Neolithic hillside fort, once the seat of the Kingdom of Ailech.