Tourists to the mountaintop Sicilian town often overlook its ancient fortifications.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

A medieval wash house where people washed clothes in a river allegedly formed by the tears of a mourning nymph.

This constantly evolving art space saved an Italian town from its own crippling reputation.

This cemetery overlooking the Benbulben rock formation is the final resting place of one of Ireland's most beloved poets.

This is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first cemetery museum in the world.

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

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

This 14th century tower house was once the home of Irish poet W.B. Yeats.

The chaotic studio of one of the 20th century's most important artists has been preserved down to the dust.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

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.

An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

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

The world's tallest box hedge is found in a delightful garden.