*This article comes from Atlas Obscura’s Places newsletter. Subscribe or manage your subscription here.* On Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Jean Lafitte’s Old Absinthe House looks and feels like it belongs to another century. Andrew Jackson is said to have met the pirate Jean Lafitte in an upstairs room to ask for help manning ships against the British in the War of 1812. Today, the brick interior is lined with mementos left behind by visitors, its convivial history made visible. The smallest bar in Amsterdam has stayed in one family since 1798, cramming centuries of coziness into a famously tiny room. An old-world Spanish eatery in Madrid is billed as the oldest restaurant in the world, and is still celebrated for its suckling pig. Some say this 19th-century Mexican cantina is the birthplace of the margarita. A storied Baltimore bar claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.…