Places cyantoast Wants to Go

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

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

A beautiful little bookshop located in the middle of a desert.

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

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

With former lives as a bomb shelter and government parking lot, this shop is one of China’s most extraordinary locales for book-lovers.

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

This charming, medieval walled village is Spain's first "book town."

This rickety old shed hides a trove of secondhand literary treasures.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

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

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

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

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

Over a million items cram the shelves at Africa's largest shop of used and rare books.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

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

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

The world's largest secondhand book market is a haven for bibliophiles and bargain hunters.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

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

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.