115 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10012

The MacDougal Street basement club where he played his first New York set in January 1961, the week he arrived from Minnesota. He described walking in off the street and asking to play.

11 W 4th St, New York, NY 10012

The Greenwich Village folk club where he made his professional debut supporting John Lee Hooker in April 1961. Robert Shelton's New York Times review here launched his career.

567 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014

The West Village pub where Dylan Thomas drank himself to death, and where the folk revival crowd converged. Dylan adopted the name partly in homage — he was a regular here in his early Village years.

222 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011

The Chelsea's literary flophouse. He lived here in the early 1960s and the hotel's mythology is intertwined with his — Edie Sedgwick, Leonard Cohen, and the whole underground were neighbours.

2188 Stoll Rd, Saugerties, NY 12477

The house where he retreated after his 1966 motorcycle accident and recorded the Basement Tapes with The Band. The mythological origin of Americana as a genre.