Places vmhenshaw Wants to Go

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

An ancient holy well said to be used by the patron saint of sailors and travelers, lost in the boggy west of Valentia Island.

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

This 5,300-year-old tomb with mysterious carvings crowns an Irish mountain.

The ruins of a medieval monastery named after a type of tree.

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

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

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

These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

Ireland's most remarkable collection of these curious cone-shaped houses is worth the buzz.

Just a few miles off the western coast of Ireland lies an isle steeped in Irish literary history.

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

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

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

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

While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.

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

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

A remarkably intact castle that once was the largest in Ireland.

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.