The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.

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.

These gigantic skeletons tower over visitors and provide insight into the creatures that once ruled over Ireland.

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

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

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.

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.

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

At least 14 twice-retired ships were sunk to make a lovely rusting breakwater in Comox Harbour.

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

This mundane shopping plaza is named after a gruesome piece of flotsam.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

This small beach park is littered with a collection of unique driftwood sculptures.

A monument stands at one of the starting lines of the Trans-Canada Highway, formerly the longest uninterrupted highway in the world.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.