Libraries

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

On the second floor of a small town library is an homage to angling and memorial to a great local fisherman.

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

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

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

The world's largest collection of mechanical puzzles is a cornucopia of analog bafflers.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

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

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.