Literature

The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

Where the father of Persian poetry is laid to rest.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.