The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The ruins of this medieval castle in Northern Ireland have inspired artists from C.S. Lewis to Led Zeppelin.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

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

These barriers stand as stark reminders of Northern Ireland's troubled past.

It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."

The ship built to ferry passengers and goods to the doomed Titanic is now the last remaining White Star Line vessel.

These engineering masterpieces are a dominant feature of the Belfast skyline.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

Step into Narnia at this small park featuring statues from "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe."

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

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

The burial place of 14 of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.