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Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse
Kinderhook, New York

Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse

The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.
Demogorgon was never a deity in Greek or Roman mythology. In fact, “Demogorgon” wasn’t even a real word. The character's popularity dates back to the 1300s, when he began appearing in Latin literature.
monsters

The Many Lives of Demogorgon, From Scribal Error to 'Stranger Things'

How vague and various descriptions made a medieval mistake into a lasting horror.
Daniel A. Gross October 25, 2019
Austen's observations about grisly dental procedures might make your mouth hurt.
literature

For Sale: Jane Austen’s Wince-Inducing Descriptions of 19th-Century Dentistry

In a letter to her sister, the novelist politely recounts a grisly scene.
Jessica Leigh Hester October 16, 2019
Glendalough, Ireland

Writers' Room at The Wicklow Heather

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.
Literatų gatvė (Literature Street).
Vilnius, Lithuania

Literatų Gatvė (Literature Street)

Plaques celebrating Lithuanian writers freckle a wall of this picture-perfect path.
Days before his death, Dickens' handwriting was still firm and clear.
literature

Sold: Charles Dickens’s Liquor Log

Dickens spent the days before his death counting casks of whiskey.
Reina Gattuso September 26, 2019
Kurt Vonnegut’s typewriter, at the former Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library space.
literature

The New Vonnegut Museum Could Only Have Ever Been in Indianapolis

The author had a love-hate relationship with his hometown.
Susan Salaz September 19, 2019
Denver, Colorado

My Brother’s Bar

Neal Cassady may still have an open tab at one of Denver’s oldest watering holes.
Detail of the time capsule boxes.
Madrid, Spain

Caja de las Letras

A vault of safe-deposit boxes in an old bank has been repurposed as a time capsule of Hispanic culture.
The house where H.G. Wells lived.
Sandgate, England

House of H.G. Wells

In a small Kentish seaside stands the former home of one of the greatest science-fiction writers.
The Old Manse garden.
Concord, Massachusetts

The Old Manse

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.
The moat.
Blidworth, England

Fountain Dale

This muddy wooded valley and the ancient structures it hides are said to be the favored haunt of the legendary Friar Tuck.
libraries

In a Special Room in an Ohio Library, Toni Morrison’s Legacy Lives On

The Nobel Prize–winning novelist never lost touch with her hometown.
Sabrina Imbler August 8, 2019
Statue of David Balfour And Alan Breck Stewart
Edinburgh, Scotland

David Balfour and Alan Breck Stewart Statue

These characters from a Robert Louis Stevenson novel stand in an unlikely place.
A place to sit and rest if you climbed the hill on foot.
San Francisco, California

Poet's Corner

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.
A statue of the writer-botanist-philosopher, with wildflowers.
trees

How Thoreau's 19th-Century Observations Are Helping Shape Science Today

For one thing, they tell us that plants aren't blooming when they used to at Walden Pond—or most anywhere else.
Evan Nicole Brown July 9, 2019
"Dear Dad," it's Ernest Hemingway.
literature

Sold: A Letter Where Hemingway Complains That He Sucks at Bullfighting

At least it gave him lots of material.
Matthew Taub June 13, 2019
Bluestockings storefront in 2006.
New York, New York

Bluestockings Bookstore

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.