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trees

7 Nominees for the Best Tree in Literature

Cast your mind back to childhood and choose a favorite.
Tao Tao Holmes May 18, 2016
Quentin Compson Plaque
Boston, Massachusetts

Quentin Compson Memorial

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.
literature

How Novels Came to Be Written in the Voice of Coins, Stuffed Animals and Other Random Objects

Why a niche 18th century literary genre still has meaning today.
Linda Rodriguez McRobbie May 12, 2016
food

Newly Found Walt Whitman Series Reveals He Advocated for Paleo Diet

“Let the main part of the diet be meat, to the exclusion of all else,” Whitman wrote, in articles that have been lost for over 150 years.
Erik Shilling April 29, 2016
Basin from above
Lincoln, New Hampshire

The Basin

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.
literature

8 Places From Shakespeare That You Can Actually Visit

Why just watch a play when you can experience some of his most famous locations for yourself?
Eric Grundhauser April 22, 2016
literature

Saul Bellow's Son Explains How 'Guerilla Marketing' Sold His Father's Unsellable Desk

Until last month, nobody was much interested.
Eric Grundhauser April 20, 2016
Vonnegut's artwork on display in the small museum
Indianapolis, Indiana

Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library and Museum

This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.
The castle viewed from the loch
Dalmally, Scotland

Kilchurn Castle

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.
The crumbling remnants of the home where an exiled Trotsky lived from 1929 to 1933
Adalar, Turkey

Büyükada

Over the centuries, this island paradise has done it all, from providing monks with ecclesiastical respite to sheltering an exiled Leon Trotsky.
Display covering Buchan's love of the outdoors and time in South Africa
Peebles, Scotland

The John Buchan Story Museum

A small literary museum remembers the life and works of the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps.
Dante's Tomb, Ravenna
Ravenna, Italy

Dante's Tomb

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.
Campaign limericking inspired some spirited pamphlet vandalism.
politics

Turning a Presidential Campaign Into a Set of Bawdy Limericks

There once was a candidate from Nantucket...
Cara Giaimo April 1, 2016
Solvang, California

Hans Christian Andersen Museum

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.
In the rafters of the Book Barn, dating back to 1822
West Chester, Pennsylvania

Baldwin's Book Barn

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.
Voltaire in marble resting atop his real, fleshy heart (as captured in 1924)
Paris, France

The Heart of Voltaire

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.
cemeteries

Lost: The Mystery of Shakespeare's Skull

There's an "odd disturbance" at one end of the Bard's grave.
Sarah Laskow March 25, 2016
Yosemite National Park, California

The Ahwahnee Hotel

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.