A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

A desert that evokes the surreal.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?

The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.

A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.

Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents

A Bibliophile's Dream.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

'The Letters of Utrecht' lays out a ribbon of poetry one letter at a time, with no final verse in sight.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

A 19th century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.