With former lives as a bomb shelter and government parking lot, this shop is one of China’s most extraordinary locales for book-lovers.

An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.

Once one of the largest rooms full of books in the world, this bookstore basement is still a treat for bibliophiles.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

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

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

Believe it or not, this is the final resting place of the man who created the Odditorium.

This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.