Places adamU Wants to Go

For more than two centuries, this family-run establishment has been serving up some of Ireland's best oysters.

When the tide is high, you can see the Atlantic pushing up through a deep, jagged hole in the rock.

A former fortified tower now houses a collection of classic communications equipment.

This Neolithic passage tomb forms part of a World Heritage Site.

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.

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

Ireland's most remarkable collection of these curious cone-shaped houses is worth the buzz.

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

An oddly conical beacon perched atop beautiful Irish cliffs.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

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

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 floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

It's gunky, it's gross, and it's been freed from the sewer and put on display.

Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.