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

Ireland’s northernmost pub.

The burial place of 14 of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising.

A gated cross stands on the site where an Irish revolutionary met his end.

A guitar mounted on a wall in Temple Bar honors the Irish musician.

An enigmatic monument to the Irish revolutionary who plotted an uprising against British rule.

This cemetery overlooking the Benbulben rock formation is the final resting place of one of Ireland's most beloved poets.

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

You can see three Irish counties from this Neolithic hillside fort, once the seat of the Kingdom of Ailech.

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

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

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

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

Traveling this mountain pass reveals quaint stone buildings, stunning Irish scenery, and a bridge said to grant wishes.

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

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 gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.