This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

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

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

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

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

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

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin's lost medieval wall.

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

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

World's largest working waterwheel has been around for over 150 years.

This hidden bridge is where local children leave gifts and messages for the island's fay folk.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

Inside this small museum resides a strange mix of miniature collections passed down over time.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.