The small family-run business has kept alive the fading art of creating beautiful handmade book covers.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

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

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

A massive collection of rare and antique books in a tiny ranching community in northern Texas.

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

The Catskills retreat of naturalist writer John Burroughs.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.