The twice-stolen hand of an alleged card cheat, with its final set of playing cards.

Pivotal in the research of early British Bronze Age life, found near Stonehenge.

This gate served as a small lock-up jail in the 14th century.

This public lavatory is home to a mini museum that explores toilets through time.

A memorial to 350 people burned at the stake for witchcraft.

St George's Leprosy Museum depicts the gruesome afflictions of those suffering from the disease.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

This floating sculpture of ice is a poignant reminder of nature's power.

In downtown Oslo, a menacing and terrifying relief clings to a church wall.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

An enigmatic monument to the Irish revolutionary who plotted an uprising against British rule.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

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

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

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

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

Dublin's most modern, visually spectacular bridge is modeled after Ireland's national emblem.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.