An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

This 85-year-old fireplace in an urban woodland is dedicated to a poet who recognized the beauty of a tree.

With a 90-foot wingspan, the world’s largest loon sculpture stands outside Allianz Field.

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

Thousands of people walk over this fantastic work of art every day, but how many notice it?

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

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

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

Ireland's most remarkable collection of these curious cone-shaped houses is worth the buzz.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.

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

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

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

Originally built to monitor fishing, this Victorian tower now educates visitors about the local salmon industry.

Despite the name, this 16th-century structure in Galway wasn't built by the Spanish.

The larger of two volcanic peaks rising out of the crystalline waters of the Caribbean.

Come for the springs; stay for the mud bath.