Visitors to the Giant’s Causeway, the world-famous tourist attraction in Northern Ireland, are being urged ... coins in between the site’s iconic stones. UK heritage body the National Trust ...

The Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland is made up of 40,000 hexagonal stones. Jennifer Boyer via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 Last year, roughly 684,000 individuals visited the Giant’s Causeway.

A decades-old ritual is causing both aesthetic and physical damage to the world-famous Giant's Causeway in Co Antrim, ...

Coins squeezed into the gaps in the basalt columns of the tourist attraction in north Antrim eventually rust and expand, ...

The Giant's Causeway has faced many threats to its survival, from mythical fights between giants to coastal erosion and ...

Northern Ireland is home to the Giant’s Causeway ... The work isn’t cheap: It’ll cost $40,000 for stone conservation specialists to take them out carefully. Since the existing coins may ...

Northern Ireland’s World Heritage Site is being damaged by visitors leaving coins in the cracks of the famous stones. Scores of coins have been left wedged into the cracks of the basalt rock columns ...

Unsightly streaks of copper, nickel and iron oxides are also staining the stones where the ... than 40,000 columns at the Giant’s Causeway, which is Northern Ireland’s first Unesco World ...

Unsightly streaks of copper, nickel and iron oxides are also staining the stones where the ... than 40,000 columns at the Giant’s Causeway, which is Northern Ireland’s first Unesco World ...