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Dublin, Ireland

Sweny's Pharmacy

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.
Dwór Artusa.
Gdańsk, Poland

Dwór Artusa

A merchant court dedicated to the fictitious King Arthur is heavily adorned with bizarre Renaissance art.
Baltimore, Maryland

The Horse You Came In On Saloon

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.
Jekyll and Hyde owe their beginnings to a well-made cabinet.
31 days of halloween

The Creepy Cabinet That Inspired Jekyll and Hyde

How a piece of furniture informed an iconic horror story.
Eric Grundhauser October 12, 2017
View into the reading room.
Austin, Texas

The Harry Ransom Center

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.
The original Winnie the Pooh & Pals.
New York, New York

The Real Winnie the Pooh & Pals

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.
Permanently Closed
Plaque honoring Mahomed on the site of the Hindoostane Coffee House
London, England

Sake Dean Mahomed Plaque

The "shampooer of kings" who opened London's first curry cafe was a celebrity in the 19th century, but is all but forgotten now.
Increasing education for girls, like this group of students learning to write around 1915, created a generation of women looking to be more than good wives and mothers.
literature

The Banned 1910s Magazine That Started a Feminist Movement in Japan

"Seitō" showed women how to leave their husbands.
Sarah Laskow September 22, 2017
The beautiful tiles of Manises.
Manises, Spain

The Ceramics of Manises

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.
A replica of her small writing table.
Amherst, Massachusetts

Emily Dickinson's Bedroom

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.
Union, Connecticut

Traveler Restaurant

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.
Burgh Island, the hotel, and the sea tractor.
Kingsbridge, England

Burgh Island

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.
A Gatsby piled high with calamari and chips.
Gastro Obscura

Gatsby

This Cape Town sandwich is as extravagant as a certain literary character.
<em>The School of Athens</em>, 1511.
literature

How Do You Decode a Hapax? (Also, What’s a Hapax?)

It's a word that only appears once in a work, author's oeuvre, or an entire language's written record.
Maya Nandakumar September 7, 2017
Pratchett's Discworld series spanned more than 40 delightful books.
literature

Author Terry Pratchett's Unfinished Works Have Been Crushed With a Steamroller

Just as he wanted.
Eric Grundhauser August 30, 2017
The <em>Dreadnought</em> hoaxers in their Abyssinian regalia, with Virginia Woolf on the far left.
literature

When Virginia Woolf Dressed Up as an 'African' Prince to Fool the Royal Navy

The irony of a racist prank that sought to show up the British Empire.
Natasha Frost August 29, 2017
Paris is just one city that's often described with inherently feminine language.
literature

Why Do We Love to Think of Places as People?

"Paris, I am in you" is just the latest manifestation of a long tradition.
Natasha Frost August 23, 2017
Bemelmans Bar
New York, New York

Bemelmans Bar

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.