The second largest surviving chained library is housed in this 12th century church.

Unchanged for centuries, this medieval library keeps its books in chains.

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.

This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.

Over 80,000 carved wood blocks make up one of the world's oldest intact Buddhist canons.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

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

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

A 19th century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.