Portland, Oregon
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An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.
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Portland, Oregon
An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.
Portland, Oregon
Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.
London, England
Down a pint of ale where the Bishop of Ely's servants slept in 1546.
Glasgow, Scotland
Glasgow's oldest pub has a proud literary tradition and possibly a ghost or two.
Eastbourne, England
Eat and drink at a pub older than the Magna Carta
Basingstoke, England
At this historic pub, you can sit back, sip, and watch a whole century go by.
Scotland
A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.
Bury Saint Edmunds, England
The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.
London, England
The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.
Sheffield, England
Amidst towering office buildings, a local pub lives inside Sheffield’s oldest surviving domestic building.
Southampton, England
This 700-year-old storehouse was a POW jail, aviation workshop, and Titanic memorial before becoming a brewpub.
London, England
This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.
Edinburgh, Scotland
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.
London, England
This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era “champions.”
Stilton, England
Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.
Gloucester, England
Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.
St. Helena Island, South Carolina
The remains of a chapel created for convenience.
Charleston, South Carolina
Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.
Summerville, South Carolina
First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.
Yemassee, South Carolina
Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.
Oxford, England
This centuries-old pub boasts a collection of more than 4,500 snippets of neckties from around the world.
Tokyo, Japan
A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.
Glendalough, Ireland
A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.
Houston, Texas
A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.