Bars

Leave the wardrobes and sweets to British schoolchildren, Shanghai's got a Coke machine that leads to booze.

A simple midtown bar was once the home of a secretive and exclusive club staffed by "bunnies" under Hefner's strict rules.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The last of the 19th-century booze-free bars has been slinging teetotal tonics for over a century.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Half curiosity cabinet, half late night hotspot, this Brazilian bar is helping turn a dangerous neighborhood around.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

Starting with nothing more than discarded conch shells, one man has built an island/bar that would make Jimmy Buffet jealous.