Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

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

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

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.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

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.

With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

Leaning shelves and books galore, this location is a book lover's utopia.

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

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

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

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

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

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

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

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.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano.