In 1944, author Henry Miller was looking for a place to call home, a place where he could

write and paint and piece where he could enjoy nature.

I was just taken one day, I had never had an experience living in a country.

Henry Miller grew up in Brooklyn, and for most of his life, he was very much a city person.

In New York, later Paris, until he came to Big Sur.

And if you've ever been there, or even if you've seen photos, it's not hard to understand

why this rugged scenic California coastline won him over.

This beautiful, beautiful, steep mountainside is one thing, but one of the most beautiful

things that happens in Big Sur is that the ocean is flat like a mirror, and the air is clean

and clear.

You can see a knife edge horizon, and you can see that knife edge horizon, 40 or 50 miles

out to sea because you yourself are standing at a 2,000 feet elevation.

So it's an experience to see an ocean that is so huge that you can actually see the curvature

of the earth because you're standing so far up in the hill.

Undo and Therese, and this is Al-Subscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible

and wondrous places.

Today, we visit the Henry Miller Memorial Library, tucked in among the towering redwoods

of Big Sur.

It describes itself as not a library or you can borrow books, not a memorial with dusty

relics, and not Henry Miller's old home.

So today, we try and figure out if it's not any of that.

What is?

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