Places alxndr Wants to Go

Just another ancient, mysterious Irish stone circle.

Once the longest bridge in Ireland, this rusting span sits abandoned and overrun by nature.

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

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

An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.

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

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

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

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

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

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

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

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

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

An Irish peat mine has become a stunning sculpture park.

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

The burial place of 14 of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising.

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

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

Walk or bike along a narrow strip of Belgium sandwiched by German territory.

Abandoned since 1998, this train station has become an oasis for urban explorers.