This friendly fellow was built to honor an advancement in mineral processing.

A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Sip cherry liqueur at a bar dating back to 1840.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

This Neolithic passage tomb forms part of a World Heritage Site.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

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

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

An abandoned faux-pub made famous by a Guinness commercial.

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

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

This beautiful site is where the first transatlantic telegraph was sent from.

Once the longest bridge in Ireland, this rusting span sits abandoned and overrun by nature.

The whiskey producer's archives includes a historical list of infractions committed by and associated penalties exacted upon employees.

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

The oldest inn in Kilkenny was established by the first convicted witch in Ireland.

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

Ireland's only German military cemetery holds the remains of a spy who was moved there under the cover of darkness.

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

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.