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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

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

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.

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

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

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

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

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

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

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

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

Writers such as Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, and Samuel Beckett frequented this Tangier bookstore.