Preservation Facts

Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.

In 1974, canned food from a boat that sank in 1865 was tested by chemists and was found to be still safe to eat.

Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found 3,000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still perfectly edible.

Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room palace outside Philadelphia, closed to the public for more than 80 years. It was built for the Widener family. A father and son, George and Harry, boarded the Titanic in 1912 and never came home. Inside were more than 2,000 artworks that later helped found the National Gallery of Art. This fall, for the first time in generations, the doors open. You can walk in.

Instead of McDonald's tearing down a ~230-year-old Georgian mansion, citizens of a small NY town forced them to renovate it instead, resulting in a uniquely historic franchise location.