With former lives as a bomb shelter and government parking lot, this shop is one of China’s most extraordinary locales for book-lovers.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

The gravestone of a famous poet features a fittingly poetic epitaph chosen by the writer himself.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

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

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.