Kim Jong Il decided that North Korea needed a better state-run brewery. But instead of building a brewery from scratch, the North Korean leader decided to go shopping for one. For £1.5 million, North Korea bought the 175-year-old Ushers of Trowbridge Brewery. Russians entirely dismantled the brick-walled factory, then the North Koreans shipped all four million pounds of it to Pyongyang. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/taedonggang-brewing-company