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One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

Admire endangered plants in a verdant garden that looks straight out of a Monet painting.

The skull of this patron saint is kept in a shrine located in his hometown.

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

Along the side of the road on a small Japanese island is an extensive garden of uniquely designed Shisa statues.

Grotesque statues of figures from Buddhist hell haunt the temple's Sin Park.

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

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

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.

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

Achill's most recently abandoned village dates back to to the Age of Enlightenment.

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

A remarkably intact castle that once was the largest in Ireland.

A rocky Irish outcropping with a history of wealth, conflict, and ruin.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.

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

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

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

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

The ruins of an 800-year-old monastery boasts the tallest round tower in Ireland.