For other literary spots, you could try some pubs frequented by literary luminaries, which have fascinating historical pasts and eclectic interiors. The George Inn, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese and the Fitzroy Tavern are a good place to start.
At 221B Baker Street in London (in fact between numbers 237 and 241), you can find the Sherlock Holmes Museum, a former boarding house dedicated to Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional creations. Enthusiasts hoping to see genuine objects related to Arthur Conan Doyle may be disappointed, as the museum is simply a period recreation set up as if Sherlock and Watson lived there. More exciting is the Georgian town house's gift shop, which is an excellent destination for Sherlock aficionados as it has the largest collection of Sherlock-themed gifts in the world.
Shakespeare’s Globe offer historical tours explaining the context of Shakespeare's London, and there are a number of excellent used bookshops in the centre of town: we recommend Skoob in Bloomsbury and Any Amount of Books on Charing Cross Road.
For other museums that were former houses of famous historical figures, you could explore the Freud Museum, the Benjamin Franklin House, Leighton House Museum or the Florence Nightingale Museum.
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