Places Viator Wants to Go

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.

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

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The oldest licensed distillery in Ireland.

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

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Huge standing stones mark a site of megalithic mystery.

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.