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A confident and eccentric goat farmer boldly proclaimed his honor with an inscription on this woodland stone.

Visit the grave of a famous feminist author and the mother of Mary Shelley.

The former home of one of America's greatest short story writers is home to an annual pun competition.

The childhood home of America’s first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

This 15th-century church was once described as the ugliest in England.

Old 'Nutcracker' sculptures from 'Where the Wild Things Are' author found new life as a seasonal attraction.

This risqué sculpture, based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, caused outrage 35 years after it was erected.

A cottage built at the birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, a sailor who inspired the novel 'Robinson Crusoe.'

This square in downtown Eugene is dedicated to the novelist and countercultural figure Ken Kesey.

The final resting place of a legendary science fiction author and his fraternal twin sister who died as an infant.

A recreation of a sign that Charles Dickens used to see on his walk home.

The world's smallest Austen museum is inside an unassuming phone booth.