Places bfoeldesi Wants to Go

An abandoned faux-pub made famous by a Guinness commercial.

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

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

On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.

This European portal tomb has a capstone that weighs around 150 tons.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

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

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

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

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

Traveling this mountain pass reveals quaint stone buildings, stunning Irish scenery, and a bridge said to grant wishes.

This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.

An important pilgrimage site for pagans and early Christians, named for a Celtic goddess-turned-saint.

You can see three Irish counties from this Neolithic hillside fort, once the seat of the Kingdom of Ailech.

The remains of this deep, dark mine have left behind a haunting rocky warren of tunnels.

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

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

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

Certain traditions prevail on the least-visited island of the Aran Islands.

Wander among the abandoned ruins of this once-powerful medieval town.

Just another ancient, mysterious Irish stone circle.

Though they've since been renamed, these two streets hint at Dublin's darker days.