Probably the biggest attraction of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, which is just west of Belfast, is the Ulster-American Folk Park, 5 mi/8 km north of Omagh. Built on the birthplace of U.S. millionaire Thomas Mellon (father of Andrew Mellon), the park features an outdoor museum with ironworks, a weaver's cottage and many other homesteads, a reconstructed emigrant ship, and plenty of other exhibits on life in prefamine Ireland and the New World—you'll need at least a half-day to see everything. If you have a fascination with the 18th president of the U.S., you can visit the ancestral home of Ulysses S. Grant, also near Dungannon.
In the northeast corner of the county, near the village of Cookstown, are the Beaghmore stone circles—seven Bronze Age structures of mysterious purpose and origin. The alignment of the stones appears to correlate to movements of the sun, moon and stars.
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