Bars

One of the capital's last independent milk bars remains a crucial community watering hole.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

A 200-year-old tavern challenges guests to finish a glass of wine while hanging from a ceiling beam.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

A quiet Sicilian village is home to a cafe that had an important role in "The Godfather."

This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

This 700-year-old storehouse was a POW jail, aviation workshop, and Titanic memorial before becoming a brewpub.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

The oldest tavern in Lowell has dedicated fans of its fan.

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.