Places ruthi Wants to Go

Ireland's only cable car once carried livestock across a treacherous strait.

A Victorian marvel of engineering is now a 21st-century tourist attraction.

It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."

Northern Ireland's church-turned-skate park.

This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

This modest plaza in Moneygall, Ireland has cashed in on its distant connection to the U.S. president.

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

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.

Tiny silver and copper fish set inside blue-green lights are like windows to the underwater world.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Behind one of the world's most impenetrable vaults is a massive collection of retail silver.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.