A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

These circular ruins are all that remain of a 17th-century Arctic whaling outpost.

Thousands of miniature bronze sculptures have taken over this city square creating a unique art installation.

One of Ireland's best-preserved chambered cairns can be found next to a wishing tree.

When the tide is high, you can see the Atlantic pushing up through a deep, jagged hole in the rock.

One of Ireland's lesser-known megalithic structures.

Horse cemetery on the grounds of Blarney Castle.

A diminutive, thousand-year-old church believed to be the smallest in Ireland.

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

This rare and ancient Christian relic is one of Ireland’s oldest freestanding stone crosses.

The largest stone circle in Ireland.

Ancient Bronze Age rampart that was used into the middle ages.

A mysterious Neolithic tomb is perched along the edge of a modern golf course.

The symbolic center of Ireland, this summit also offers panoramic views of the countryside.

A Neolithic passage tomb said to have sheltered two legendary Irish lovers.

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

The skeleton of a whale that beached itself in this Irish town is now on display in their public park.

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

A collection of housewares from recent Irish history adjoined by a tower from ancient Irish history.

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

This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.

An ancient chamber filled with wonderful rock art and a Neolithic carving of a human face.

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

You can see three Irish counties from this Neolithic hillside fort, once the seat of the Kingdom of Ailech.