Beautiful scenery provides the backdrop for an abandoned coastguard facility.

These huge glacial erratics are humorously named after a much much smaller bird.

This picturesque lighthouse at the edge of the Irish Sea looks like a giant stone pencil.

400 million years of erosion shaped these fascinating seaside caves, which made an appearance on 'Game of Thrones.'

A memorial to a goat culled during a foot and mouth disease outbreak guards a series of fantastical caves.

The "Black Arch" guards the entrance to the picturesque Glens of Antrim.

This tiny train shuttles passengers to one of Northern Ireland's most spectacular sights.

This Italian-style temple replica has been threatening to fall off the Irish coast for hundreds of years.

The ruins of this medieval castle in Northern Ireland have inspired artists from C.S. Lewis to Led Zeppelin.

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

This 18th-century fort surrounded by a moat was used to store gun powder and ammunition, and now sits in the middle of a large park in Dublin.

This statue celebrating everyday life in Dublin has a few unsavory nicknames.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

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

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

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

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

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

Seventy-five miles of limestone caves host more than a million bottles of wine beneath a sleepy Moldovan town.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

A statue dedicated to the founders of communism.