Cat art as far as the eye can see.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

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

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

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

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.