Tourism can mean different things to everyone. For some, it’s seeing all of the world’s greatest landmarks: the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Eiffel Tower or the Taj Mahal. For others, it may mean finding the house where your grandparents lived before even your parents were born. And sometimes tourism is as simple as visiting that famous donut shop you’ve heard nothing but good things about.

Literary tourism, on the other hand, is a whole different beast. There are the drinking holes that your favorite characters frequented or the places where authors lived and dined and prospered. It’s a mess of fiction and fact, but perhaps the most inspiring sites are the ones that helped define some of today’s greatest literature. Here are six landmarks it would be impossible to imagine these respective novels without: