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"The Machine," a display at the Kafka Museum.

Prague, Czechia

Franz Kafka Museum

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

Peter Pan is the boy who never grows up.

London, England

Peter Pan Statue

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

London, England

Paddington Bear Statue

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A place to sit and read in the oldest Jewish library in the world

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Biblioteca Ets Haim

The world's oldest Jewish library was founded by Sephardic Jews in 17th century Amsterdam.

Ramona in the Beverly Cleary Sculpture Park.

Portland, Oregon

Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

Stockholm Public Library

Stockholm, Sweden

Stadsbiblioteket (Stockholm Public Library)

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

Handcrafted marbled endpapers of a book manually bound in France around 1880.

The Unsung Delight of a Well-Designed Endpaper

They're an art form all their own.

Sarah Laskow March 10, 2017

Drawers and drawers of fonts ready to be used.

San Francisco, California

Arion Press and M & H Type

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

The Note Books of a Woman Alone: the real name of the author is unknown.

Uncovering the Hidden Books Tucked Inside Every Single Library

There's no standard way to catalog anonymous texts, which makes them incredibly hard to find.

Sarah Laskow February 28, 2017

Main entrance

Washington, D.C.

Carnegie Library of Washington, D.C.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

Library of Congress Card Catalog

Washington, D.C.

Library of Congress Card Catalog

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

Found: A Glimpse of Marcel Proust, Caught on Film

This is the first known footage of the famous author.

Sarah Laskow February 16, 2017

Alternate view from the second floor

Washington, D.C.

Riggs Library

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

"Edgar Allan Poe Square" in the Boston Common, near the place where Poe was born.

edgar allan poe

10 Places That Rejected Poe in Life But Celebrate Him in Death

Edgar Allan Poe gets the recognition he deserves in the afterlife.

Molly McBride Jacobson February 9, 2017

Dickens at work.

Why the London of British Literature Barely Changed for 200 Years

An innovative mapping project uncovers just how limited the literary version of the city has often been.

Sarah Laskow February 2, 2017

objects of intrigue

This 19th-Century Book Chronicles Victorians' Strange Cat Fears And Fascinations

A cartoonist illustrated and wrote accounts of weather-predicting and love spell-binding cats.

Lauren Young January 17, 2017

Anatomical fugitive sheet of a male figure, 1573.

objects of intrigue

How Flap Illustrations Helped Reveal the Body's Inner Secrets

Sixteenth century scholars peeled away anatomical ignorance one layer at a time.

Bryan Gardiner January 4, 2017

Watch Paper Masterpieces of China's Forgotten Tribes Unfold in Pop-Up Books

Artist and photographer Colette Fu uses the pop-up book to tell stories of minority tribes in China.

Lauren Young December 30, 2016