Galway, Ireland
Dun Aonghasa
An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.
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Galway, Ireland
An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.
Wicklow, Ireland
An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.
Dublin, Ireland
Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.
Dublin, Ireland
The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.
Sligo, Ireland
This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.
Athlone, Ireland
The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.
Glenslane, Ireland
This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.
Rosscarbery, Ireland
One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.
Rome, Italy
A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.
Venice, Italy
100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.
Puno, Peru
The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.
Nazca, Peru
A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.
Lima, Peru
Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.
Merzouga, Morocco
God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.
Aït Ben Haddou, Morocco
A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families
London, England
An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.
San Antonio de Pichincha, Ecuador
An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.
Zipaquira, Colombia
Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the Earth's surface.
Budapest, Hungary
Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.
London, England
In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.
England
Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.
Dublin, Ireland
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
Oxford, England
A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.
Glastonbury, England
Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.