This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

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

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

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

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

Amidst the bustling streets of Dublin, there is a hushed garden that is dedicated to "All those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom."

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.

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

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

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

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

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

See some of the world's greatest racing horses at this idyllic thoroughbred breeding facility and garden complex.

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

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

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

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