Bars

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

You may get stranded and everyone's peeing in the water, but at least there's cocktails!

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

From lefty Jewish gathering site to hip cultural site in just 80 years.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

A Viking-themed bar in a canal town for those retreating from the hustle and bustle of Shanghai.

A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.