Places Bookhistorian Wants to Go

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Mysterious library of an infamous financier and spiritual seeker.

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.