Places bibliobecca Wants to Go

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

A unique collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and everything in-between.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

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

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

One of the largest collections of traditional Māori artifacts in New Zealand.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

Is there such thing as too many fruit bats? Not anymore.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

One of the best beaches in the entire world.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

The cultural center preserves the history of the Tlingit tribe, who have lived in this Alaska village for more than 10,000 years.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.