Bruning's Bar

It's no surprise that New Orleans loves it cocktails (sazeracs, hurricanes and hand grenades, to name a few), but it also is deeply attached to its history - so much so that when Hurricane Katrina demolished the city's third oldest restaurant, Bruning's, a group of men braved the high waters of Lake Pontchartrain to save its bar. Here she sits at the Museum of the American Cocktail awaiting restorations.