You won't believe your eyes - they really are glass. The Glass Flowers collection at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University is a famous collection of highly realistic glass botanical models, made between 1887 and 1936 by a German father-son team. The museum also houses a stunning collection of mineral rocks.

Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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TTo clear your head the morning after a night on the Guinness, hop on the Dart to Dun Laoghaire and take a stroll down one of its two piers. The east pier is a mile long and the west even longer. You will be rewarded with a breathtaking view over the Irish Sea.

On sunny days when the sea is a deep azure and the sky scattered with gauzy clouds you'll share the pier with families and lovers and little boys fishing. On colder winter days, when the water is iron grey, and the cumulus clouds and watery sun do battle over the roof tops and church steeples, the only sounds will be the rushing wind and the clanging of harboured boats. You might pass other pink-nosed hardy souls or even spot a few seals watching you silently from the choppy waves.

Nothing like it for a hangover.

DART to Dun Laoghaire station

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