Places tommimeckley2 Wants to Go

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

An abandoned faux-pub made famous by a Guinness commercial.

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

The world's only flying boat museum honors a small Irish village that sent 20th-century aviation to new heights.

This small Irish village suffered the greatest loss of life when the Titanic sank.

Catholics make up 84% of Ireland's population but this Dublin museum remembers the small but important Jewish community.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

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

The skeleton of a whale that beached itself in this Irish town is now on display in their public park.

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

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

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

This European portal tomb has a capstone that weighs around 150 tons.

You can see three Irish counties from this Neolithic hillside fort, once the seat of the Kingdom of Ailech.

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.

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

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

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

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

Achill's most recently abandoned village dates back to to the Age of Enlightenment.

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.

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

The oldest licensed distillery in Ireland.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.