Books

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

The remnants of sheer survival in Dublin's monastery district.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

Scotland's first free lending library, which protects literacy through inheritance.

A gigantic collection of teeny, tiny books.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

A Bibliophile's Dream.