Places robertgfallon Wants to Go

A former fortified tower now houses a collection of classic communications equipment.

Fantastic stainless steel dragon gates complete with mesh wings.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

This is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first cemetery museum in the world.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

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

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

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

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin’s lost medieval wall.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

Final resting place of a pioneering scurvy researcher.

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Final resting places of a husband and wife who became famous for their claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.