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

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

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

While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.

An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

A local road runs around a memorial to a teenager who died in 1860.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.