Places abbyekik Wants to Go

Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

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

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

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

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

A mysterious plaque to the even more mysterious "Fr. Pat Noise," killed in "suspicious circumstances."

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

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

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

This Bronze Age tomb is the centerpiece of a clearing within a beautiful Irish forest.

A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

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

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

This controversial Irish show cave is home to a massive formation known as the Great Stalactite.

Modern sundial uses ancient methods to tell time and date perfectly.

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

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

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.