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The first public library in the Americas has more than 45,000 books dating back to the 15th century.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

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

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

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

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

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

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

Water still flows through the oldest Spanish aqueduct in America.

A colorful public mural in San Antonio's West Side encourages students to stay in school.

In 1977, wealthy socialite Sandra West was buried wearing an elegant white nightdress while reclining comfortably in her powder-blue 1964 Ferrari.

On the outskirts of San Antonio, a small bridge is said to be the home of a mysterious local legend known as the "Donkey Lady."

The cremains of those who donated their bodies to science are buried in a tiny cemetery behind the building.

Conflicting markers on its floor tell a tale of two city centers in San Antonio.

Amazingly detailed marble cinerary urns that once held the cremains of Roman elite.

A collection of vintage liaison aircraft kept in flying condition and on display at an airfield in San Antonio.