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

At this cozy bar tucked down a hidden Galway backroad, Guinness makes the Gaelic come out.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

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

A spectacular hidden beach in Ireland has the dark, disturbing nickname of "Murder Hole Beach."

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

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

More than a century old, this trading post resides in the Navajo Nation.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

A short but powerful waterfall resides amid Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

This historic railroad hotel built from Kansas limestone was once the most popular hotels for traveling salesmen in the midwest.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.