Stereotypically, bookworms are thought of as these feeble little creatures that live out their desire for adventures vicariously through their favorite novel characters; however, us intellectuals have bucket lists of our own. Literature lovers, grab your pens and add to your bucket list these amazing places that some of your favorite authors have lived. These homes, great stops for a long road trip, are beautiful marks of history in the literary world.

Here are five places that are a must-see for all literature lovers:

1. The Mount (Lenox, Massachusetts)

Edith Wharton, the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, is one of her time’s most well-known woman writers. In addition to her popular novels, “The Age of Innocence” and “Ethan Frome,” Wharton also was very interested in architecture and interior design.

In 1901, she bought over 100 acres of land in Lenox, Massachusetts and built a house that she designed. She describes her happiness with her home, saying “I am amazed at the success of my efforts. Decidedly, I’m a better landscape gardener than novelist, and this place, every line of which is my own work, far surpasses ‘The House of Mirth.’”

While she only lived in the house for 10 years, she wrote some of her masterpieces there, and the house definitely evokes a feeling of who she was as a person, an amazing feeling that any Wharton lover would want to feel.

2. Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum (Baltimore, Maryland)

Though he spent most of his life away from Baltimore, it is where he grew up and where his life ended. Poe lived in this house for about three years, and the museum has exhibits that focus on his foster parents, his life in Baltimore, and stories and poems he wrote while he was there. The house also has artifacts important in Poe’s life, including his chair and his lap desk. Anyone fond of Poe’s mysterious work should definitely stop here to get an inside look at Poe’s life and death in Maryland.

3. Terrace Summit (Saint Paul, Minnesota)

4. The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum (Key West, Florida)

Traveling to Hemingway’s home, you are not only seeing the place where Hemingway finished writing “A Farewell to Arms,” but also the first in-ground pool in Key West.

The home was built in the 1850s and was in ruins when Hemingway bought it, but his remodeling made it into the National Historical Landmark house that it is today. Any lover of this “Lost Generation” writer would love to see the personal items that remain in the house to this day.

5. The Wayside (Concord, Massachusetts)

Named by none other than Nathaniel Hawthorne himself, The Wayside was owned by his family from the 1850s until after his death in the late 1870s.

Shortly after its purchase, Hawthorne described the house as “Having been much neglected, the place is the raggedest in the world but it will make, sooner or later, a comfortable and sufficiently pleasant home.”

After a few months living there, he wrote a letter to fellow famous author, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow saying, “I am beginning to take root here, and feel myself, for the first time in my life, really at home.” Literature lovers would be thoroughly impressed by this beautiful house, which has the honor of being noted as the only home Hawthorne ever owned.