Places bibliobecca Wants to Go

This grisly headstone doesn’t seem to be resting in peace.

The 1,000-year-old abbey is the birthplace of modern musical notation.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.

This gorgeous space is England's largest independent library outside of London.

A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

Something's watching you.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in South America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

This former charity hospital for elderly clergy houses some of Seville’s most treasured paintings.

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

This ancient shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years since the eighth century.