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Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France)

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

Karuizawa Museum of Picture Books in Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan

Karuizawa, Japan

Karuizawa Picture Book Forest Museum

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

Permanently Closed

The Marker

Dublin, Georgia

'Fegren of the Air'

The remnants of sheer survival in Dublin's monastery district.

Los Angeles, California

The Last Bookstore

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Salt Lake City Public Library

Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City Public Library

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

First publication in 1810 by Humboldt who repainted five pages for his latest book

Dresden, Germany

Dresden Codex

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

Innerpeffray Library

Crieff, Scotland

Library of Innerpeffray

Scotland's first free lending library, which protects literacy through inheritance.

Baku, Azerbaijan

Museum of Miniature Books

A gigantic collection of teeny, tiny books.

Fountain and giant Ruhnama at Independence Park in Ashgabat.

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

Giant Ruhnama

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

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Buenos Aires, Argentina

El Ateneo Grand Splendid

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

This is what Myopic books looks like.

Chicago, Illinois

Myopic Books

A Bibliophile's Dream.