New Delhi, March 20 -- We've all been so floored by a book or a movie or a song that we've wished we could be in the same place. Some of our writers have followed through on this impulse, tracking a work or body of art to its setting. Whether it's a journey to Costa Brava to soak in some Dali, or to Seoul to relive moments from a favourite K-series, here are 10 holidays where we followed our obsessions to their source.

My introduction to classical music came through a slightly crackly LP of Peter and the Wolf that appeared often on the family turntable when I was a child.

In our living room orchestra, every instrument had a personality. Peter himself bounded through the music carried by bright strings that sounded like youthful mischief...