An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

This museum is dedicated to the most famous Irish writers in history.

Not actually a shop, but one fan's passionate show of support for a rival county's Gaelic football team.

The whiskey producer's archives includes a historical list of infractions committed by and associated penalties exacted upon employees.

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

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

An abandoned faux-pub made famous by a Guinness commercial.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

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.

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

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

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

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

The oldest public library in Ireland.

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

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