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

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

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

The ruins of a medieval monastery named after a type of tree.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

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

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

The home of Ireland's last leprechauns is officially protected by the European Union.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

Traveling this mountain pass reveals quaint stone buildings, stunning Irish scenery, and a bridge said to grant wishes.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

After the oysters have been shucked, and the restaurant's been shuttered, the terrazzo sidewalk from the 1940s is all that remains.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.