Beneath an ancient wishing tree lies an underground chapel with 12th-century frescoes and catacombs dedicated to a lady saint.

This museum is dedicated to the most famous Irish writers in history.

An elaborate Romanesque archway, built right before the British occupation of Ireland.

Originally built to monitor fishing, this Victorian tower now educates visitors about the local salmon industry.

Oliver Cromwell once seized the land under this house, which included the ruins of a medieval abbey that the owner used to build his stately home.

An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.

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

These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.

Ruins battered by centuries of war and disaster offer a wondrous glimpse of medieval Ireland.

This natural sea arch highlights Ireland's rugged coastal beauty.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

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

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

A hidden tunnel of bones in one of Malta's oldest churches.