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roxyvictoria22

I love what you do and wish you would write an article about the woman who was in the Guinness Book of Records as the "biggest miser". She saved her soap scraps in a tin box. I think of her often in these times of excess.....

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Places visited in Beaucaire, France

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Glasgow, Scotland

The Scotia Bar

Glasgow's oldest pub has a proud literary tradition and possibly a ghost or two.

Added by Rain Salazar

New York, New York

Nom Wah Tea Parlor

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

Diana Hubbell

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Provincetown, Massachusetts

The Old Colony Tap

Pay homage to the quintessential P-town dive.

rachelrummel

Added by rachelrummel

Tbilisi, Georgia

Sabir’s Chaikhana

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

Evan Nicole Brown

Added by Evan Nicole Brown

Newport, Rhode Island

The White Horse Tavern

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

e1savage

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Mexico City, Mexico

Café La Habana

This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

Monsieur Mictlan

Added by Monsieur Mictlan

Nahoum and Sons

This Jewish bakery, among the last in the region, sells legendary sweets from a century-old storefront.

Reina Gattuso

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Beaucaire, France

Mas des Tourelles

A winery built on the site of a Gallo-Roman estate uses historical tools to recreate ancient vintages.

Added by Rafael Tonon

Las Vegas, Nevada

Evel Pie

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

wmorden

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Morgan County Dungeon

This underground holding cell was forgotten for over a century and rediscovered in the 1960s.

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Pacifica, California

Linda Mar Taco Bell

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

Anne Ewbank

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Batumi, Georgia

Batumi McDonald's

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

hrnick

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Du Fu KFC

A KFC honors an eighth-century Chinese poet with holograms and verse.

Anne Ewbank

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Queens, New York

TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

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