Places slightlyspecial1too Wants to Go

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

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.

This neon landmark has been posing this deadpan question to follicly-challenged Dubliners for over 50 years.

Though they've since been renamed, these two streets hint at Dublin's darker days.

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

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

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

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

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.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.

A whimsical cottage from the 1300s with a preserved Victorian-era post office inside.

Part museum, part piece of Arthurian-inspired history, this stately hall attracts King Arthur fans from miles away.

It is said the legendary wizard once lived in this sea cave beneath Tintagel Castle.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

A schooner, nicknamed "The Unsinkable," with a long history of survival in the Indian Ocean.

The remains of a 19th-century school and living quarters are perched atop a mountain surrounded by a thick tropical forest.