Places kaitdoyle Wants to Go

These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.

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

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

An 1814 castle that hosts an exhibit of "explorabilia".

After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.

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

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

A remarkably intact castle that once was the largest in Ireland.

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

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

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

One of the most remarkable caves in all of Iceland was created by a once raging river of lava.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

A geothermal pool in North Iceland that is said to be the bathing spot of the legendary Grettir the Strong.

A monument dedicated to the civil uprisings that took place during the Pots and Pans Revolution.

A relatively obscure antihero from the Marvel Comics universe adorns a wall inside Iceland's main airport.

Though they may seem like simple stones, these rocks represent a ghostly legend.

Dozens of large, brightly-colored paintings adorn the walls of the "street art capital of Iceland."

The Hveragerði fissure runs through this unassuming shopping center.

This wild explosion of color on a disused water tower tells the whimsical tale of a curious puffin.