Places hmhmurphy Wants to Go

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

Running since 1864, this clock has yet to be wound, one of the longest-running science experiments known.

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

This small Irish village suffered the greatest loss of life when the Titanic sank.

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

The inscribed stone at Kilnasaggart is a remnant from nearly a millennium ago.

Modern sundial uses ancient methods to tell time and date perfectly.

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

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

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

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

Northern Ireland's church-turned-skate park.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

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

Some of the saint's blood and bones are said to reside in Dublin.