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

Ireland's only German military cemetery holds the remains of a spy who was moved there under the cover of darkness.

The world's only flying boat museum honors a small Irish village that sent 20th-century aviation to new heights.

Dublin's most modern, visually spectacular bridge is modeled after Ireland's national emblem.

This neon landmark has been posing this deadpan question to follicly-challenged Dubliners for over 50 years.

A Neolithic passage tomb said to have sheltered two legendary Irish lovers.

A mysterious Neolithic tomb is perched along the edge of a modern golf course.

After it was swallowed by a Georgian mansion, this medieval castle remained forgotten for centuries.

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

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

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.

On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.

The largest portal tomb in Europe has a capstone weighing around 150 tons.

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

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

This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.

Ruins battered by centuries of war and disaster offer a wondrous glimpse of medieval Ireland.

This natural sea arch highlights Ireland's rugged coastal beauty.

Just another ancient, mysterious Irish stone circle.

Though they've since been renamed, these two streets hint at Dublin's darker days.

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.

Wander among the abandoned ruins of this once-powerful medieval town.