Rome, Italy
Via Appia
2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.
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Rome, Italy
2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.
Rome, Italy
The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.
Rome, Italy
A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.
Venice, Italy
This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.
Baia, Italy
A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.
Cork, Ireland
An important landmark in the history of algebraic logic.
Kilkenny, Ireland
These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.
Offaly, Ireland
Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.
Kerry, Ireland
Ireland's most remarkable collection of these curious cone-shaped houses is worth the buzz.
Kerry, Ireland
Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.
Wexford, Ireland
After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.
Kilkenny, Ireland
Once the longest bridge in Ireland, this rusting span sits abandoned and overrun by nature.
Tullamore, Ireland
An 1814 castle that hosts an exhibit of "explorabilia".
Dublin, Ireland
A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.
Glenslane, Ireland
This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.
Leixlip, Ireland
A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.
Meath, Ireland
An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.
Galway, Ireland
A remarkably intact castle that once was the largest in Ireland.
Kilkenny, Ireland
The oldest inn in Kilkenny was established by the first convicted witch in Ireland.
Galway, Ireland
An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.
Kilkenny, Ireland
This ancient Irish religious site is covered in ancient carvings, many of which have barely aged.
Kerry, Ireland
Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.
Budapest, Hungary
A 13th-century convent where St. Margaret of Hungary spent her teenage years.