Once a safe haven for locals engaged in blood feuds, this 400-year-old fortified tower is now a museum showing what life was like for those lying in wait within its walls.

Fantastic stainless steel dragon gates complete with mesh wings.

What was once believed to be a church floor turned out to be the artwork of geology.

A black sand beach where glacial fragments wash ashore and look like sparkling diamonds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

These moss-covered medieval ruins tower atop the smallest of Ireland's Aran Islands.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

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

The ruins of a medieval monastery named after a type of tree.

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

A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.

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

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

A mysterious plaque to the even more mysterious "Fr. Pat Noise," killed in "suspicious circumstances."

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.