This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

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

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.

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 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

This neon landmark has been posing this deadpan question to follicly-challenged Dubliners for over 50 years.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin's lost medieval wall.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

Amidst the bustling streets of Dublin, there is a hushed garden that is dedicated to "All those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom."

This statue celebrating everyday life in Dublin has a few unsavory nicknames.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

Dublin's most modern, visually spectacular bridge is modeled after Ireland's national emblem.

This is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first cemetery museum in the world.

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

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

These moss-covered medieval ruins tower atop the smallest of Ireland's Aran Islands.

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

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.