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A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

Everyone from Alan Ginsberg to The Rolling Stones has stopped by this classic dive bar.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

This ghost-town bar has bullet holes and plenty of stories lurking within its walls.

This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

Renowned restaurant tucked in a cave once occupied by buccaneers.

This old-fashioned candy shop, ice cream parlor, and diner served as the setting for one of TV's most controversial series finales.

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

This picturesque stream was up until recently the site of a ten story mountain of slag and sewage.