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A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

Now a memorial to merchant sailors and Titanic victims, this medieval church was destroyed by bombing raids in 1940.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."