Roscommon, Ireland
The Irish National Famine Museum
An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.
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Roscommon, Ireland
An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.
Cork, Ireland
This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.
Dublin, Ireland
Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.
Skibbereen, Ireland
This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.
Kerry, Ireland
Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.
Dowth, Ireland
The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.
Montreal, Québec
Montreal's giant farmer's market is a foodie's best friend, especially in the winter months.
Stoke Heath, England
An ode to the classic piece of British street furniture.
Harpenden, England
Chemical fertilizer in agriculture's origin story begins here.
Haywards Heath, England
Nearly 2 billion seeds from 38,000 species are stored and processed at this visitable facility in a quiet corner of England.
Leicester, England
The world's largest collection of artifacts from our history of industrial gas use is hard to simply pass.
Bournemouth, England
Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.
Birmingham, England
These centuries old gardens have been restored to their 17th century condition.
Sandown, England
This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.
Shoreham-by-Sea, England
This tiny 1930s Art Deco airport is a beautiful remnant of a bygone era.
Manchester, England
Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.
Alston, England
A well-preserved 2nd century fort where moles are the archaeologists.
Kielder, England
England's "pier at the end of the universe" unites astronomy and contemporary architecture.
Knighton, England
Britain’s longest ancient monument, this great 8th century earthwork was built to mark the boundary between what would become England and Wales.
North Yorkshire, England
This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.
Cambridge, England
The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.
Keswick, England
A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.
Brighton, England
The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.
London, England
The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.