Places conordgallagher Wants to Go

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

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.

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

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.

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

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

This lavish room in a New York City mansion is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.