This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

Ancient Bronze Age rampart that was used into the middle ages.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

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

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

Dublin's most modern, visually spectacular bridge is modeled after Ireland's national emblem.

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

An ancient chamber filled with wonderful rock art and a Neolithic carving of a human face.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

The scant remains of an expansive indigenous civilization can be seen at this Arkansas state park.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.