The alcohol industry has experienced ebbs and flows in recent years due to shifting consumer desires, tariff trouble, and more non-alcoholic beverage competitors. Despite these challenges, Buffalo Trace Distillery located in Frankfort, Kentucky remains a stronghold amid a global decline in alcohol sales. The distillery is one of the oldest and most well-known in the United States. Famous for its high-end bourbon, the distillery has been around for over 200 years and has grown along with our nation: overcoming prohibition, war, and in recent years, historic flooding. Its offerings include the flagship Buffalo Trace Bourbon, and specialty brands such as Blanton's Single Barrel, Eagle Rare, W.L. Weller, E.H. Taylor, Jr., and the highly sought after Pappy Van Winkle.

In 1899, Isabella Stewart Gardner purchased a strip of marshland to house the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Ninety-one years later, the Gardner hosted the most infamously expensive museum heist ever—$500 million worth of art including a Rembrandt seascape, Degas sketches, a Vermeer, and ancient Chinese pottery was stolen over St. Patrick’s Day weekend in 1990. Despite a Netflix documentary and substantial increases of reward money, the trail remains frigid. To this day, the museum has empty spaces where the art once was, “placeholders” representing the hope that the paintings will return.