Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

A gigantic collection of teeny, tiny books.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

Unchanged for centuries, this medieval library keeps its books in chains.

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

This small-town library was the first in the world to be entirely supported by taxation.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.