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Example of Unicum as Molotov Cocktail.

Budapest, Hungary

Zwack Unicum Museum

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

Wall of historic Pez dispensers
Permanently Closed

Burlingame, California

Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

The JELL-O museum features a stuffed local circus giraffe, as well as many spoons.

Le Roy, New York

The JELL-O Gallery Museum

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

Antoine’s Restaurant

New Orleans, Louisiana

Antoine’s Restaurant

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

Old Route 5 Stone Wall

Nova Scotia

Old Route 5 Stone Wall

A waterfall coming through an old stone wall, in a small canyon where 3 creeks converge.

Selexyz Dominicanen

Maastricht, Netherlands

Selexyz Dominicanen

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

View from the parking lot

East Lyme, Connecticut

Book Barn

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

The door to Otto Penzler’s office in the Mysterious Bookshop, marked by police tape.

New York, New York

Mysterious Bookshop

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

Cook & Book

Brussels, Belgium

Cook & Book

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

Sweny's Pharmacy exterior

Dublin, Ireland

Sweny's Pharmacy

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

The stacks of John K. King Used & Rare Books.

Detroit, Michigan

John K. King Used & Rare Books

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

The underground bookstore.

Sonora, California

Legends Books, Antiques & Soda Fountain

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

London's floating bookstore.

London, England

Word on the Water

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The exterior of Quimby's

Chicago, Illinois

Quimby's Bookstore

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

Very hot books in a very hot shop.

Quartzsite, Arizona

Reader's Oasis Books

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

Faulkner House Books.

New Orleans, Louisiana

Faulkner House Books

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

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Kansas City, Missouri

Prospero's Books

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

Osterley Bookshop

London, England

Osterley Bookshop

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

Chamblin Bookmine

Jacksonville, Florida

Chamblin Bookmine

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

Exterior of Bart's Books.

Ojai, California

Bart's Books

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

Brattle Book Shop.

Boston, Massachusetts

Brattle Book Shop

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

In the rafters of the Book Barn, dating back to 1822

West Chester, Pennsylvania

Baldwin's Book Barn

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

Adams’ Antiquarian Bookstore.

Hobart, New York

Hobart Book Village

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

Renaissance Book Shop

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Renaissance Book Shop

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

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