Places bertshetler Wants to Go

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

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

This controversial Irish show cave is home to a massive formation known as the Great Stalactite.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

This statue inspired by Renoir's famous painting embodies the jovial spirit of Key West.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

Just a few miles off the western coast of Ireland lies an isle steeped in Irish literary history.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

Only gap in the 30,000-mile span of roads called the Pan-American Highway.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.

This ancient Hawaiian henge may have been an early star chart.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

This tiny Hawaiian island is slowly coming back to life after being bombed during naval training exercises.

The grand marquee of this abandoned Hawaiian theater remembers the building's elegant past.

During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.