Despite being 10,000 miles from their native land of Australia, a group of wallabies has made Lambay Island home for the last 25 years. In the 1980s, Dublin Zoo had a sudden and uncontrollable... »

Anomalous Islands, Fascinating Fauna | Edited by atimian

"An incredible, impossible, mad place. I tell you the thing does not belong to any world that you and I have lived and worked in; it is part of our dream world." -- George Bernard Shaw Skellig... »

Natural Wonders, Anomalous Islands, Architectural Oddities, Curious Places of Worship, Incredible Ruins | Edited by humanist, Nicholas Jackson and 2 others

Founded in 1030 AD by the Hiberno-Norse king Sitriuc Silkenbeard and Dúnán, first Bishop of Dublin, the originally viking church has been a part of Dublin and Irish history ever since. The wooden... »

Curious Places of Worship | Edited by bradenh83

Since 1857, visitors to the Natural History building of Dublin’s National Museum of Ireland can see not only animals and minerals of Ireland but, as some say, a museum of a museum. Containing... »

Natural History | Edited by bradenh83 and Dylan

Barns tend to be thought of as big, red, wooden and filled with hay and farming tools. Or at least that seems to be the American conception of the barn. In Ireland the Wonderful barn fulfills none... »

Architectural Oddities | Edited by Nathan_Risinger, Nicholas Jackson and others

Conolly’s Folly located in County Kildare, Ireland, is unique for a variety of reasons. It is not every day that you come across a large stone structure of no particular religious association... »

Eccentric Homes | Edited by Nathan_Risinger, Nicholas Jackson and 2 others

The real measure of a telescope's power is not how greatly it can magnify a distant object, but what portion of that object's light the instrument actually collects. It's easy if you think of... »

Inspired Inventions, Instruments of Science, Retro-Tech | Edited by Trevor, wythe and 3 others

When the RMS Titanic sank in the icy Atlantic ocean on 15 April 1912, some 1,517 people died. Many were from London, New York or other cosmopolitan cities, but the loss was felt particularly hard... »

Unusual Monuments | Edited by Mylesnag and Annetta

The Calendar Sundial in Galway, Ireland tells both the time of day and the month of the year. Located in Brigit's Garden, a local park, the Calendar Sundial, built in 2006, is the biggest in... »

Astounding Timepieces, Long Now Locations | Edited by Mylesnag, Dylan and 2 others

Down a set of dimly lit narrow stone steps, in a vault underneath the church, lay dozens of coffins, and one mummy ready to shake your hand. The mummies in the basement of St. Michan's church in... »

Memento Mori, Mummies, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by CPilgrim and Annetta