Cartagena, Colombia
Ábaco Libros y Café
A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.
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Cartagena, Colombia
A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.
Detroit, Michigan
This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.
Sonora, California
A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.
London, England
This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.
Chicago, Illinois
The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.
Bardon, Australia
This rickety old shed hides a trove of secondhand literary treasures.
Urueña, Spain
This charming, medieval walled village is Spain's first "book town."
Quartzsite, Arizona
The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.
Nanjing, China
With former lives as a bomb shelter and government parking lot, this shop is one of China’s most extraordinary locales for book-lovers.
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
A beautiful little bookshop located in the middle of a desert.
Provins, France
An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.
Oxford, England
Once one of the largest rooms full of books in the world, this bookstore basement is still a treat for bibliophiles.
London, England
Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.
Kansas City, Missouri
This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.
Ojai, California
Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."
Jacksonville, Florida
A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.
Tokyo, Japan
A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.
Wonthaggi, Australia
Leaning shelves and books galore, this location is a book lover's utopia.
West Chester, Pennsylvania
This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.
Bucharest, Romania
This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.
Hobart, New York
This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.
São Paulo, Brazil
The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.
Benson, Arizona
Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.