A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

Italy's only urban waterfall has enchanted artists and travelers for centuries.

This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.

These abundant, over-the-top monuments are so widely scattered that they define the entire compact capital cityscape, often leading to jokes about whether there are more statues than residents.

A cone-shaped top and cylindrical body set this 900-year-old structure apart from other Italian bell towers.

Dedicated to a synagogue that was destroyed after having survived World War II.

An ode to a soldier who came to town, fell in love, then began making his own sparkling wine.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

When this monument to Slovenia's national poet was erected, it's said to have sparked the ire of nearby church authorities.

Strange rumors surround the artist who created these solemn metal guard dogs.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

Humble beginnings for one of the world's most famous scientists.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.

A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.

Constructed during the 1960s, this bridge is still the highest in Italy.

Two of the few remaining life-sized Greek bronzes were submerged in the sea for over 2,000 years.

The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.

Some of the best-preserved specimens of the monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A field filled with carved medieval tombstones called stećak.

The grounds of this Catholic boarding school are said to have inspired Arthur Conan Doyle and J.R.R. Tolkien.