This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

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

A monument to a 19th-century Irish woman whose murder inspired several literary works.

The symbolic center of Ireland, this summit also offers panoramic views of the countryside.

It's said this geological anomaly was caused when the Devil took a bite out of the Irish mountainside.

This Copper beech tree nestled on a nature reserve is host to a bevy of autographs from Irish literary icons.

This Neolithic passage tomb forms part of a World Heritage Site.

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

A massive Celtic cross secretly growing in an Irish forest.

A stone wall that mysteriously moved three feet from its foundation.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

This Bronze Age tomb is the centerpiece of a clearing within a beautiful Irish forest.

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

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

An ancient chamber filled with wonderful rock art and a Neolithic carving of a human face.

A collection of housewares from recent Irish history adjoined by a tower from ancient Irish history.

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

An important pilgrimage site for pagans and early Christians, named for a Celtic goddess-turned-saint.

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.

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

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.

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."