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These barriers stand as stark reminders of Northern Ireland's troubled past.

A giant sculpture of the legendary "Salmon of Knowledge" celebrates the return of fish to Belfast's River Lagan.

This massive monument has been telling the time for 150 years—at a slight angle.

This neon landmark has been posing this deadpan question to follicly-challenged Dubliners for over 50 years.

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.

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

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

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

A relatively obscure antihero from the Marvel Comics universe adorns a wall inside Iceland's main airport.

An unusual building on a "desolate hill" features the works of an Icelandic sculptor.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

An LED art installation composed of 600 poles wrapped in kimono fabric.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

A Buddhist temple on an artificial island that houses a monument to the fugu fish.

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.