Places zichk Wants to Go

A historic structure that once housed pigeons used by farmers to help fertilize farmland.

One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.

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

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

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

The most unusual block in Brasília.

The maze-like transportation hub contains abandoned areas, derelict stores, and a resident bat colony.

The highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore looks like a series of undulating waves rising between two public parks.

A giant roundabout made up of six smaller roundabouts can befuddle the uninitiated.

Unruly residents were housed in this one-person cell until the Black Maria arrived.

You've probably seen these distinctive orange-tiled columns on the big screen.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

Inside this Krakow church, an explosion of psychedelic color.

This Oaxacan restaurant serves native corn and Indigenous recipes.