Places Spyros K Wants to Go

Impressive mining ruins overlook a spectacular view of Ireland's Copper Coast.

These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.

Ireland's most remarkable collection of these curious cone-shaped houses is worth the buzz.

Oliver Cromwell once seized the land under this house, which included the ruins of a medieval abbey that the owner used to build his stately home.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

Ruins battered by centuries of war and disaster offer a wondrous glimpse of medieval Ireland.

A collection of housewares from recent Irish history adjoined by a tower from ancient Irish history.

The remains of this deep, dark mine have left behind a haunting rocky warren of tunnels.

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

Just a few miles off the western coast of Ireland lies an isle steeped in Irish literary history.

The ruins of an 800-year-old monastery boasts the tallest round tower in Ireland.

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.

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

This controversial Irish show cave is home to a massive formation known as the Great Stalactite.

Once the longest bridge in Ireland, this rusting span sits abandoned and overrun by nature.

While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

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

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

A rocky Irish outcropping with a history of wealth, conflict, and ruin.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.