Places ernavries1997 Wants to Go

After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making a daily loaf of sourdough in its shape.

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

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

An Irish peat mine has become a stunning sculpture park.

Follow lines from a W.B. Yeats poem through interconnecting gardens designed to appeal to each of your senses.

These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.

On the clock tower at St. Anne's Church in Cork, you never know which face is telling the truth.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

An oddly conical beacon perched atop beautiful Irish cliffs.

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

Ireland's only cable car once carried livestock across a treacherous strait.

Ireland's most remarkable collection of these curious cone-shaped houses is worth the buzz.

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

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

At the time of its construction, this hydroelectric power plant was the largest in the world.

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

The lesser-known of just two Japanese Gardens in Ireland stands as a memorial to an obscure but fascinating travel writer and journalist

Impressive mining ruins overlook a spectacular view of Ireland's Copper Coast.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.

Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

In the heart of Luxembourg's "little Switzerland" weaves a breathtaking natural sandstone canyon with a mythological past.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.