This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.

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

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

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

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

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

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

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

An abandoned faux-pub made famous by a Guinness commercial.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

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