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Charles Dickens

Portsmouth, England

Charles Dickens Statue

A rare full-sized statue of one of Britain's famous writers.

The author's punch recipe is "a knockout."

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Drink Like Dickens With the Author's Punch Recipe

With flair and fire, he turned mixology into a performance.

Sam O'Brien December 21, 2021

The restored Charles Dickens statue.

Sydney, Australia

Charles Dickens Statue

This rare effigy of the author spent years lost in storage.

Bowness-on-Windermere, England

New Hall Inn (The Hole in t' Wall)

This 17th-century pub once had a hole in its wall so the neighboring blacksmith could easily access beer.

In his performances, Dickens took to the stage alone, with little more than a desk and his book.

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Charles Dickens Couldn't Stop Tinkering With 'A Christmas Carol'

He revised and revised whenever he took his show on the road.

Jessica Leigh Hester December 17, 2018

Cambridge, Ohio

Dickens Victorian Village

Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.

The kiln.

London, England

'Potteries and Piggeries' Bottle Kiln

A relic from one of London's worst 19th-century slums.

Grip the Raven

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Grip the Raven

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

Tremont Temple

Boston, Massachusetts

Tremont Temple

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

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Morbid Monday: Deadly Trains

Annetta Black June 6, 2011

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Eastern State Penitentiary

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.