Visit the Setting of Your Favorite Book With These Cool Travel Destinations

If you need some unique vacation ideas, try following in the footsteps of some of your favorite novels.

3. New Zealand

Fans of “The Hobbit” and “Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien can explore various locations in New Zealand that served as sets for the films. Just be sure to go there and back again.

4. Hannibal, Missouri

While you’re gallivanting around the world, don’t forget about Mark Twain’s childhood home in the middle of America. Hannibal, Missouri is the setting for “Tom Sawyer” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Get ready to explore the mighty Mississippi River, Tom Sawyer’s cave, Huck Finn’s boyhood home, and the Mark Twain museum. Be sure to paint a fence while you’re there.

5. Cartagena, Colombia

Fall in love with a city by the Caribbean Sea that has an old-world charm. Visit Cartagena, Colombia, the place where Gabriel García Márquez set his masterpiece, “Love in the Time of Cholera.”