This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

This rickety old shed hides a trove of secondhand literary treasures.

This charming, medieval walled village is Spain's first "book town."

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

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

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 historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

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

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

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

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.

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.

One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.