Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

One of Hungary's most influential places of learning is also home to one of the world's most beautiful libraries.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

This gorgeous space is England's largest independent library outside of London.

This influential Renaissance-era library was once the haunt of kings and monks.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

The first public library in the Americas has more than 45,000 books dating back to the 15th century.

A wonderfully eccentric Victorian-era museum and library.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

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

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.