Carlsbad, New Mexico
Lechuguilla Cave
A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.
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Carlsbad, New Mexico
A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.
Winkler County, Texas
Two massive and unstable sinkholes are yearning to unite, and their consummation could be catastrophic.
Geneva, Switzerland
One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.
Geneva, Switzerland
This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.
Meyrin, Switzerland
The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.
New York, New York
A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.
Wicklow, Ireland
This 5,300-year-old tomb with mysterious carvings crowns an Irish mountain.
Louth, Ireland
A mysterious Neolithic tomb is perched along the edge of a modern golf course.
Drogheda, Ireland
The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.
Galway, Ireland
This 14th century tower house was once the home of Irish poet W.B. Yeats.
Galway, Ireland
A strange egg in a mucky bog of western Ireland marks the spot of an aviation milestone.
Dunree Head, Ireland
A retired military stronghold on the rolling green coast of Donegal.
Kerry, Ireland
An Irish town has built a statue to a silent film actor simply thanks to the holidays he once spent there.
North Tipperary, Ireland
This modest plaza in Moneygall, Ireland has cashed in on its distant connection to the U.S. president.
Kerry, Ireland
An abandoned faux-pub made famous by a Guinness commercial.
Louth, Ireland
A stone wall that mysteriously moved three feet from its foundation.
Dublin, Ireland
The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.
Offaly, Ireland
The world's tallest box hedge is found in a delightful garden.
Galway, Ireland
Modern sundial uses ancient methods to tell time and date perfectly.
Carlow, Ireland
This European portal tomb has a capstone that weighs around 150 tons.
Wicklow, Ireland
Oliver Cromwell once seized the land under this house, which included the ruins of a medieval abbey that the owner used to build his stately home.
Kilkenny, Ireland
A collection of housewares from recent Irish history adjoined by a tower from ancient Irish history.
Kerry, Ireland
A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.
Kerry, Ireland
Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.