These gigantic skeletons tower over visitors and provide insight into the creatures that once ruled over Ireland.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

Dublin's most modern, visually spectacular bridge is modeled after Ireland's national emblem.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

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

The oldest church in Inverness witnessed the brutal executions of many Scottish soldiers.

A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

This macabre monument atop an ancient well gives a nod to a brutal episode in Scottish clan history.

A double cantilever system bridge that was designed to prevent flood damage.

The longest staircase lock in Britain.

An eccentric aristocrat brought these Australian natives to their current Scottish home.

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

A solemn memorial in a majestic setting that honors a 1692 tragedy.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.

Historic barracks utilized during both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.