The Old Head of Kinsale (Ireland)

The Old Head of Kinsale in County Cork, Ireland, is a dramatic 2-mile (3.2-kilometre) promontory jutting into the Atlantic Ocean. The headland sits just 18 kilometres (about 11 miles) from the site where the RMS Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat in 1915, an event that sharply shaped World War I history. The entire headland is now dominated by the exclusive Old Head Golf Links—an 18-hole course opened in 1997 where some tees sit perched on cliffs 300 feet directly above the churning Atlantic.