Libraries

The remains of the second-oldest zoo in Europe can be seen within these library gardens.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.

Dozens of vintage puppets are displayed in an unassuming hallway at the public library.

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

This former cathedral is now a bustling library packed with students and pigeons.

Fragments of the former temple's lost facade are now displayed in a strange library of stones.

The red letters in the literary pavement leading to the library form a mysterious code.

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

This 19th-century ranch is being transformed into a residential library with thousands of books about the natural world.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

Burbling away in refrigerators are 105 sourdough starters from around the world.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.