Places whitneyn Wants to Go

The last Victorian market in Belfast.

A palatial former bank building now houses what may be the poshest art venue (and former Tesco) in Belfast.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

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

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

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

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

A glacial pothole was once a hideout for a notorious Scottish outlaw.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.

This abandoned oil depot produces world's longest echo in a manmade structure.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.