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).

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

Over 3 miles up in the Himalayas this pass is one of the highest drivable roads in the world.

World's most expensive home.

This historic library honors the legacy of the British Empire's first children's librarian.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Eurasia's most difficult place to hang out, and farthest point from sea access.

Rock-cut caves and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures carved into the nearly sheer face of a sandstone mountain.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.

A small gallery and shop dedicated to an ancient style of hand-printed textile.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

The tiny statues form China's only known terracotta army from the Han dynasty.

Discovered after draining a local pond, these ancient man-made caves are still a complete mystery.