This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

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

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 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.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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.

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

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

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.

This time-honored eatery near Hoàn Kiếm Lake serves the classic pairing of rice vermicelli soup and savory sticky rice.

Order your phở stir-fried, sans soup.

Don’t miss the local staple of rice vermicelli with charcoal-grilled pork patties and pork belly.

For true northern-style phở with broth as clear as consommé, hunt for this restaurant hidden within a residential home.

The former site of Fukuoka’s legendary ramen joint works hard to guide customers to the “original” original.

Cooks at this tiny takeout spot grind their rice flour in a stone mill each morning for perfect cheung fun.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.