Places Ardeeey Wants to Go

Ella Fitzgerald, opera singer Enrico Caruso, and dancer Isadora Duncan all performed in this lavish, supposedly haunted theater.

A beautiful midcentury mural by the famed Brazilian modernist artist Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

Commemorating the end of independent Gaelic Ireland.

The remains of a 13th-century Norman fortress, largely destroyed by an explosive renovation.

This scenic road offers breathtaking mountain pass views and a quirky “magic road” illusion.

The Dublin sea wall draws walkers, photographers, and fishing enthusiasts.

Ireland's most northerly island is hauntingly beautiful. Its lighthouse was the last glimpse of home for many Irish emigrants bound for the U.S.

The eerie remains of one of Ireland's oldest castles, said to be haunted by the ghost of a woman who brings ill fate.

The ruins of a sixth-century monastery sit on the banks of the River Shannon.

It's said this geological anomaly was caused when the Devil took a bite out of the Irish mountainside.

These moss-covered medieval ruins tower atop the smallest of Ireland's Aran Islands.

A mysterious Neolithic tomb is perched along the edge of a modern golf course.

An oddly conical beacon perched atop beautiful Irish cliffs.

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

Just another ancient, mysterious Irish stone circle.

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

Huge standing stones mark a site of megalithic mystery.

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

This natural sea arch highlights Ireland's rugged coastal beauty.

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

There might not be much left of these Irish ruins, but their linguistic legacy is still going strong.

The ruins of a medieval monastery named after a type of tree.

The home of Ireland's last leprechauns is officially protected by the European Union.