Situated along a busy street, lined with strip malls and empty storefronts, Extremes Sports bar would have been invisible if not for the gigantic purple-framed lightbox sign with the lettering “Extremes” in nondescript black font on a field of cheap fluorescent white.More>>

Scott Terheggen left his lucrative real estate career to open Rocks in Laguna Niguel, California. This beach community is located along the Pacific Ocean and surrounded by six different colleges.More>>

In 2010 decorated retired career navy man, Barry Rogers, decides to take $50,000, his entire life savings, and invest it in what had once been an unpopular biker bar in Fairfield, OH.More>>

Like many bars, Weber’s Place opened with a perfect formula for failure. Located in Reseda, a suburb of Los Angeles, Jon Taffer and his team were able to give this failing bar an identity as a rum bar. More>>

Jon Taffer turns around The Black Sheep in Cheviot, Ohio.More>>

A frequent watering hole for the local blue-collar crowd, The Olive Pit, located in Orange, California, is the dive bar that nobody knows about—though it’s been around since 1962.More>>

A person walking into a venue forms an opinion within the first three to five steps. However, in the case of Mystique Lounge in West Palm Beach, FL, opinions are formed before the customer even gets to the front door. And it’s not a positive opinion.More>>

Two college buddies whimsically decide to open a bar in 2009. For the first year, J.A. Murphy’s was very successful. Since 2011, however, the bar has become a run-down place for the frat boy-type to get wasted.More>>

As only one of three tiki bars left is South Florida, Bamboo Beach Tiki Bar was once a South Florida hot spot. But this beach front bar has turned into a South Florida disaster.More>>

Piratz feels a bit like a haven for misfits and the buccaneer business owner, Tracy Rebelo, had no background in running a bar; acting more like a mother figure to her quirky staff, than a boss.More>>