Places charleszhenson Wants to Go

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

An enigmatic monument to the Irish revolutionary who plotted an uprising against British rule.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.

Madrid's last horchata kiosk is a blue-and-white beacon of refreshment.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

This unassuming bookstore in the heart of Madrid is one of the oldest in Spain.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

A diminutive, thousand-year-old church believed to be the smallest in Ireland.

While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.

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

An oddly conical beacon perched atop beautiful Irish cliffs.

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

This 14th century tower house was once the home of Irish poet W.B. Yeats.

The only urban monument in the world designed by the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

This amazing abuela became a diehard metal fan late in life and an icon of Madrid's '80s rock scene.

Abandoned for decades, trains still pass through the now-restored remains of one of Madrid's first metro stations.

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