Belfast, Northern Ireland
Europa Hotel
It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."
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Belfast, Northern Ireland
It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."
Coleraine, Northern Ireland
This Italian-style temple replica has been threatening to fall off the Irish coast for hundreds of years.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.
Ballymoney, Northern Ireland
The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.
Connemara, Ireland
A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.
Inisheer, Ireland
These moss-covered medieval ruins tower atop the smallest of Ireland's Aran Islands.
Inisheer, Ireland
A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.
Dublin, Ireland
This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.
Dublin, Ireland
The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.
Athlone, Ireland
The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.
Bushmills, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.
Dublin, Ireland
An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.
Bratislava, Slovakia
This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.
Passau, Germany
When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.
Berlin, Germany
Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.
Berlin, Germany
The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".
Berlin, Germany
On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.
Berlin, Germany
A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.
Berlin, Germany
Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.
Paris, France
A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Paris, France
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
Vienna, Austria
Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.