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

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

“Ireland’s only inland lighthouse” is not actually a lighthouse at all.

These Neolithic burial mounds and a still-intact passage tomb may have solar calendar significance on the spring and autumn equinoxes.

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

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

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

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

An Irish town has built a statue to a silent film actor simply thanks to the holidays he once spent there.

The skeleton of a whale that beached itself in this Irish town is now on display in their public park.

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

The ruins of a medieval monastery named after a type of tree.

The largest stone circle in Ireland.

Ancient Bronze Age rampart that was used into the middle ages.

On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.

Tiny silver and copper fish set inside blue-green lights are like windows to the underwater world.

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

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

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

A mysterious plaque to the even more mysterious "Fr. Pat Noise," killed in "suspicious circumstances."

This statue celebrating everyday life in Dublin has a few unsavory nicknames.