66 bottles of whiskey hidden in the walls. Take one out and shop it around, 65 bottles of whiskey in the walls. A couple in New York received a generous housewarming gift when they discovered 66 bottles of Prohibition-era whiskey inside the walls of their home. Nick Drummond and Patrick Bakker

Treasure hunting is one of those things that I’ve always been attracted to in theory but have never made any actual attempts at whatsoever. I’m always like ‘that sounds cool, I’d do that if I was retired and had nothing else to do’ but then when I see this headline about a buried $140 million

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama Soon after the end of World War I, the US ratified the 18th Amendment, ushering in Prohibition. Returning US soldiers weren’t all that enthusiastic about it, to say the least. Alcohol had been a part of military life since the American Revolution. As the

Author: Sarah Laskow / Source: Atlas Obscura J.B. Leonis stored his whiskey in exactly the fashion you’d want a pre-Prohibition booze magnate and land developer to keep his liquor: in a secret vault, secured by a bank door, hidden behind a bookshelf. Leonis came to California in the late 19th

Author: Paula Mejia / Source: Atlas Obscura The United States’ Prohibition years, which lasted from 1920 to 1933, didn’t just give the bootleg liquor and pharmaceutical industries a boost. They also transformed ice cream from a sweet treat into a bonafide craze, since people began to socialize at