This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

An Irish town has built a statue to a silent film actor simply thanks to the holidays he once spent there.

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

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

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

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

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

The oldest inn in Kilkenny was established by the first convicted witch in Ireland.

The oldest church building in the state.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

Here be dragons.

Set sail on a small scale.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.