Amphibious mascots display a quirkier side to this luxury hotel's rich history.

A church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.

A fake 1930s-euro-style hotel with an indoor mini golf course.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

Sway your way across Virginia’s longest river on a rickety wooden bridge.

The final home of the most famous horse of the American Civil War.

The only museum outside of Australia dedicated to exhibiting the artwork of Indigenous Australian artists.

An abandoned textile mill that is now home to art and concerts.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

A Neolithic passage tomb said to have sheltered two legendary Irish lovers.

A standing relief of a Norman knight whose posture marks him as a Crusader.

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

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

A stunning medieval castle owned and restored by the famed actor Jeremy Irons.

An oddly conical beacon perched atop beautiful Irish cliffs.

This historic Art Nouveau mansion has guided tours and impressive views of the Currituck Sound.

This ancient Irish religious site is covered in ancient carvings, many of which have barely aged.

A collection of housewares from recent Irish history adjoined by a tower from ancient Irish history.

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

Despite the name, this 16th-century structure in Galway wasn't built by the Spanish.

The largest stone circle in Ireland.

This European portal tomb has a capstone that weighs around 150 tons.

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