A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

A limb from Indiana's largest sycamore tree on record.

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

The ruins of a monastery that dates to the 7th century.

The largest stone circle in Ireland.

Originally built to monitor fishing, this Victorian tower now educates visitors about the local salmon industry.

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

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

This statue celebrating everyday life in Dublin has a few unsavory nicknames.

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

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

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

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

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

Achill's most recently abandoned village dates back to to the Age of Enlightenment.

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

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

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

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

This 5,300-year-old tomb with mysterious carvings crowns an Irish mountain.

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

The oldest licensed distillery in Ireland.

These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.

The remains of this deep, dark mine have left behind a haunting rocky warren of tunnels.