In her 1937 memoir Out Of Africa, Karen Blixen remembers her home in the Ngong Hills of Kenya in lyrical prose: “The cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken.”

Sydney Pollack later adapted Blixen’s book into a critically acclaimed film of the same name starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. In the decades since, those works have drawn generations of travelers to the outskirts of Nairobi. 

“Literature is about escapism, and so is travel,” says Tom Marchant, the CEO of tour operator Black Tomato. “In so much great literature, from classics to more recently, the setting is such a powerful component that subliminally, even without even realizing it, it makes you want to immerse yourself in these places.”

While the recent “set-jetting” phenomenon pushed shoot locations for shows like White Lotus and Yellowstone into mass-tourism tourism overdrive—literature has always galvanized a more a more thoughtful and romantic type of traveler—the “lit-tripper.”

Below, we’ve gathered 17 literary-inspired trips to connect you with the world’s greatest stories.