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

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

These moss-covered medieval ruins tower atop the smallest of Ireland's Aran Islands.

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

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

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

This 14th century tower house was once the home of Irish poet W.B. Yeats.

This Copper beech tree nestled on a nature reserve is host to a bevy of autographs from Irish literary icons.

The ruins of a monastery that dates to the 7th century.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

An innovative local park built from an abandoned sewage treatment plant.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.