Dublin, Ireland
Natural History Building, National Museum of Ireland
Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.
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Dublin, Ireland
Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.
Rosscarbery, Ireland
One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.
Dowth, Ireland
The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.
Dublin, Ireland
This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.
Dublin, Ireland
An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.
Dublin, Ireland
One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.
Dublin, Ireland
The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin’s lost medieval wall.
Galway, Ireland
The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.
Wicklow, Ireland
An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.
Dublin, Ireland
A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.
Kilkenny, Ireland
This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.
Kerry, Ireland
Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.
Dublin, Ireland
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
Oran, Algeria
This former cathedral is now a bustling library packed with students and pigeons.
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
A time capsule from 1934 Rhodesia, showing the grace and disgrace of a bygone era.
Fez, Morocco
The oldest known university in the world is in Fez, Morocco.
Kigali, Rwanda
This center in the Rwandan capital supports women’s livelihoods while educating visitors about traditional cooking, craft making, and more.
Chinguetti, Mauritania
An architectural relic that survived the hands of time.
Chinguetti, Mauritania
Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents
Timbuktu, Mali
Ancient Manuscripts showcase the civilization of West Africans during the Middle Ages.
Ibadan, Nigeria
Not only does this library house unique Arabic manuscripts, but it was also designed to keep the building cool during warm days.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.
Chicago, Illinois
The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.
London, England
More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.