Places soimlostagain Wants to Go

Northern Ireland's church-turned-skate park.

A brisk climb up this solitary peak leads to the origin story of a towering figure in Irish history.

A memorial to a goat culled during a foot and mouth disease outbreak guards a series of fantastical caves.

An Irish cemetery filled with victims of political strife and violent conflict, including the grave of Bobby Sands.

The highest peak in Northern Ireland is topped with a stone tower and haunting burial mounds.

Every year locals give the bear a fresh coat of paint to preserve its signature goofy grin.

The inscribed stone at Kilnasaggart is a remnant from nearly a millennium ago.

It is said a heartbroken man visited the gap every day to stare blankly out at the sea.

The ruins of a once-grand mansion in Northern Ireland are now thought to be haunted.

The lake that fills and empties itself at random.

This gnarled old tree supposedly sprouted from seeds kept in the pocket of a 16th-century Spanish sailor.

This Italian-style temple replica has been threatening to fall off the Irish coast for hundreds of years.

A peace symbol in Northern Ireland is among the world's largest hedge mazes.

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

The only surviving piece of Copenhagen's 16th-century defensive wall.

A little-known cafe in an old copper bridge tower with 360-degree views of the harbor.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Standing stones found on a construction site are re-erected.

An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.