Places NixOfNowhere Wants to Go

The ruins of a medieval monastery named after a type of tree.

The ruins of an 800-year-old monastery boasts the tallest round tower in Ireland.

A rocky Irish outcropping with a history of wealth, conflict, and ruin.

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

The remains of this deep, dark mine have left behind a haunting rocky warren of tunnels.

This Bronze Age tomb is the centerpiece of a clearing within a beautiful Irish forest.

These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.

Ruins battered by centuries of war and disaster offer a wondrous glimpse of medieval Ireland.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

Certain traditions prevail on the least-visited island of the Aran Islands.

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.

The skeleton of a whale that beached itself in this Irish town is now on display in their public park.

An ancient holy well said to be used by the patron saint of sailors and travelers, lost in the boggy west of Valentia Island.

The symbolic center of Ireland, this summit also offers panoramic views of the countryside.

The remains of a concrete ship sit on a sandbank between Ballina Quay and Belleek Woods.

A Soviet-era health spa complete with radioactive bathing and shock therapy.

A building facade covered with the statues of 11 giants of Tajik literature.

The first version of this stalwart construction appeared around 3,000 years ago.

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.