bibliophilia

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

"Leave a He-Man, Take a Transformer" and share a story about your real-life superhero.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

A library of poems cascade off the branches of this unsuspecting tree.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

A 150-square-foot masterpiece of American landscape art is the crown jewel of this library and art gallery in Vermont.

In 1889, a small group of women began meeting to discuss literature, art, and other topics. Their every-other-week salon grew into a lending library that still exists today.

Designated as an Underground Railroad research site.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

This unique library spans a mighty river.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.

This plaque in one of London's oldest public hospitals commemorates the first meeting of two of Britain's most famous literary heroes: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

One of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust, the Nazi era, and genocide, this collection includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs, and eyewitness testimony.

This educational institution and reference library specialize in the psychic arts and mediumship.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Inspired by Thomas Stothard's painting of the "Journey to Canterbury," albeit with Canterbury natives.

The world's smallest Austen museum is inside an unassuming phone booth.

Writers such as Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, and Samuel Beckett frequented this Tangier bookstore.

This roadside stand claims to be the world's smallest bookstore.

This free museum is building a collection of books that are banned, censored or burnt around the world.

This mosaic made out of books represents one of Colonial Mexico's most important literary figures.

This unassuming bookstore in the heart of Madrid is one of the oldest in Spain.

A three-shelf library serves as a memorial in the Jewish cemetery of Krems.

In 1977, an eccentric book lover formed a micronation for book lovers.

Kuala Lumpur’s historic single-screen cinema, transformed into a labyrinthine bookstore.