Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.

This elaborately-carved white marble fountain was built to stand outside the Detroit Opera House.

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

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

The oldest public library in Ireland.

An enigmatic monument to the Irish revolutionary who plotted an uprising against British rule.

These gigantic skeletons tower over visitors and provide insight into the creatures that once ruled over Ireland.

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

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

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

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

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.