Forty thousand basalt columns rise from the North Atlantic coast like the floor of a forgotten cathedral. Perfect hexagons. Organ-pipe pillars. Geometry so precise we once blamed it on giants. The Giant’s Causeway is not carved, not constructed, not designed. It is simply lava, sixty million years old, obeying the quiet logic of physics.

Dunluce Castle was built on a narrow headland above the North Atlantic, where its dramatic position shaped both its strength and its eventual abandonment.