Places bibliobecca Wants to Go

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Nearly 2 billion seeds from 38,000 species are stored and processed at this visitable facility in a quiet corner of England.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

A true Valhalla for cactus and succulent lovers.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

An overlooked oasis of quiet on the grounds of Washington's monumental basilica.

A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.