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Ridgedale, Missouri

Bat Bar in Lost Canyon Cave

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.
Behind the Iron Curtain, shelves were empty but champagne was affordable.
dictators

How Stalin and the Soviet Union Created a Champagne for the Working Class

In 1936, the Party suddenly switched from denouncing bubbly to mass producing it.
Jessica Gingrich November 5, 2019
The "Bacardi Bomber" now resides at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
military history

Bacardi's Head Honcho Once Tried to Bomb Castro's Cuba

After many a misadventure, his warplane is on display today.
Anne Ewbank October 31, 2019
The suburb of Shively is notorious for its blanket of "whiskey fungus"
whiskey

The Dark Side of the 'Angel’s Share'

Kentucky's bourbon industry is covering its neighbors in black fungus.
Anne Marshall October 30, 2019
Somerville, Massachusetts

Reliable Market

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.
Jasper McCarthy outside of the pub established by his great-great-grandfather, Michael, in 1840.
bars

Why Ireland's Pub Owners Have Long Moonlighted as Undertakers

It helps to have cold storage and room to hold a wake.
Jessica Gingrich October 29, 2019
A miner sits at the feet of El Tio, leaving offerings for safety and prosperity.
mines

The Liquor-Soaked Devil Shrines of Bolivia's Deadliest Mine

In the heart of the Andes, Catholic miners also pray to satanic statues.
Luke Fater October 25, 2019
A bottle of amaro, with other monastery snacks.
Gastro Obscura

Amaro di Sant'Antimo

At an abbey in the Tuscan countryside, monks specialize in a curative, flower-based liqueur.
A crowd looks at different kinds of vodka for sale in a Moscow street kiosk.
money

How Vodka Became a Currency in Russia

Since the 16th century, the spirit has been the country's gold standard.
Susie Armitage October 23, 2019
São Miguel, Portugal

Solar Branco Gin Library

A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.
The press for extracting liquid from the fermented rice mixture.
Nikko, Japan

Katayama Shuzo

Founded in 1880, this humble brewery still practices a disappearing technique of sake-making.
The interior of Elsie's Tavern, made of wood, paper, glass, assorted trash, an incandescent bulb, and acrylic paint.
art

This Artist Builds Tiny, Lifelike Replicas of Beloved Dive Bars

Santa Barbara's weird underbelly, in miniature.
John Paul Titlow October 18, 2019
Hot Springs, Arkansas

Hot Springs Beer

This Arkansas town is known for its gangster history, its healing waters, and now its brews.
This whimsical house, flanked by trees, is up for grabs.
architecture

For Sale: A Pink Temple to Temperance With a Dubious History of Debauchery

The rosy-hued house in Louisville, Kentucky, could be yours.
Jessica Leigh Hester October 9, 2019
A bottle of Washington's whiskey.
Alexandria, Virginia

George Washington’s Whiskey

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.
Days before his death, Dickens' handwriting was still firm and clear.
literature

Sold: Charles Dickens’s Liquor Log

Dickens spent the days before his death counting casks of whiskey.
Reina Gattuso September 26, 2019
Vittangi Snaps Pine.
Kiruna, Sweden

Vittangi Snaps Pine

Few remain of these distinctive old trees that once served as natural landmarks for travelers on the road.
Four men in boater hats enjoy a last drink together before Prohibition begins in 1919.
bars

How Prohibition Tossed a Wet Blanket on America’s Inventors

New research reveals the link between bars and new inventions.
Alex Mayyasi September 4, 2019