Dublin, Ireland
John Kavanagh ('The Gravediggers')
This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.
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Dublin, Ireland
This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.
Ellsworth, Maine
This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.
San Francisco, California
One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.
Portola Valley, California
The Internet Age began with a transmission from this biker bar.
Dublin, Ireland
This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.
Saint-Pol-de-Léon, France
Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.
Jelgava, Latvia
The Jelgava Palace holds one of the few burial places of governor’s dynasties that is open to the public.
Munich, Germany
A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.
Bergamo, Italy
A museum entirely dedicated to Bergamo’s tradition of puppetry.
Tokyo, Japan
A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.
New York, New York
A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.
Westerville, Ohio
Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.
Fort Washington, Maryland
This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.
Fort Washington, Maryland
A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.
Fort Meade, Maryland
A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.
Thurmont, Maryland
A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.
Hampton, New Hampshire
The mansion and cenotaph of the New Hampshire Faust.
Lyndeborough, New Hampshire
Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.
Gilmanton, New Hampshire
Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.
Hebron, New Hampshire
The New England cabin where an infamous British occultist conducted experiments in "magick".
Concord, Massachusetts
Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.
Concord, Massachusetts
The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.