The lesser-known of just two Japanese Gardens in Ireland stands as a memorial to an obscure but fascinating travel writer and journalist

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

These Neolithic burial mounds and a still-intact passage tomb may have solar calendar significance on the spring and autumn equinoxes.

One of Ireland's best-preserved chambered cairns can be found next to a wishing tree.

One of the oldest lighthouses in the world, this structure was built more than 800 years ago.

On the clock tower at St. Anne's Church in Cork, you never know which face is telling the truth.

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

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

An Irish peat mine has become a stunning sculpture park.

See some of the world's greatest racing horses at this idyllic thoroughbred breeding facility and garden complex.

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

An oddly conical beacon perched atop beautiful Irish cliffs.

This modest plaza in Moneygall, Ireland has cashed in on its distant connection to the U.S. president.

Follow lines from a W.B. Yeats poem through interconnecting gardens designed to appeal to each of your senses.

This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.

An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.

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

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

The world's tallest box hedge is found in a delightful garden.

This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.

An 1814 castle that hosts an exhibit of "explorabilia".

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

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

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.