Everyone from Alan Ginsberg to The Rolling Stones has stopped by this classic dive bar.

This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.

Fuel your honky-tonking with this venue's unbeatable “Recession Special.”

Flaunt your karaoke chops at this pitch-perfect dive bar.

East Nashville's oldest dive bar will bring you back to life with animal-style bar fare.

You may get stranded and everyone's peeing in the water, but at least there's cocktails!

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Decor at “Nevada’s Oldest Thirst Parlor” includes Raquel Welch's brassiere hanging from a stuffed moose head.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

A museum celebrating rare American motorcycles where everything runs—and none of it quietly.

This metal sculpture is a tribute to the Canadian Pacific Railway, which had a station in the village that has now been converted into a library.