Places mcdermany Wants to Go

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

One of the first schools in the U.S. to admit students without regard to race or gender.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

The last of the 19th-century booze-free bars has been slinging teetotal tonics for over a century.

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

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

Their motto is, "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have!"

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

Camera cars and condom bikes built from scrap and one man's passion.

An old abandoned pharmacy building in Texas is brimming with collectibles and images of the little tuxedoed pooch.

A gigantic collection of teeny, tiny books.

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.

The world's largest collection of preserved trolleybuses.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.