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Once one of the largest rooms full of books in the world, this bookstore basement is still a treat for bibliophiles.

An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.

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

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

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

Leaning shelves and books galore, this location is a book lover's utopia.

With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

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

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.