Musée du Vin et du Négoce de Bordeaux

Musée du Vin et du Négoce de Bordeaux occupies a cellar its own tenant didn't recognize as history: wine merchant Gregory Pecastaing rented this space as plain storage for years before a guidebook told him what he was standing in. The guide follows the building back to 1720 and an Irish merchant named Francis Burke, one of the foreign traders let back into Bordeaux's wine trade after centuries of English control ended, and the Chartrons district families who built vaulted cellars like this one. It traces what Pecastaing found when he began leading visitors down here during the 2007 Rugby World Cup, and the barrel of centuries-old oak still standing in the room today.