Hartfield, England
Five Hundred Acre Wood
The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.
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Hartfield, England
The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.
London, England
A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.
Key West, Florida
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
Yangzhou Shi, China
Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.
Matamata, New Zealand
This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.
Solvang, California
Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.
Toronto, Ontario
A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.
Dublin, Ireland
The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.
Great Missenden, England
This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
Thira, Greece
A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.
Brooklyn, New York
Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.
Tianjin, China
China’s breathtaking futuristic library is lined floor to ceiling with fake books.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles
Paris, France
The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.
San Francisco, California
A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.
Dublin, Ireland
More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.
San Francisco, California
A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.
San Francisco, California
A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.
Istanbul, Turkey
A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.
Hamilton, New Zealand
The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" character has a hidden camera that broadcasts people doing the "Time Warp."
St. Petersburg, Florida
Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.
Madeira Beach, Florida
Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.
St. Petersburg, Florida
The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.