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artist. sometimes writer about the internet and cognition and "Benjaminian Fossil"-type symbolic repetition across time. into the structural dynamics of post-revolutionary historiography. thinks dogs are awesome. likes a good beer, peaty scotch, hunks of cheese, pickles and old port.

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Just look for the shed full of books.
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Bardon, Australia

Logical Unsanity Books & Miscellaneous Phantasmagoria

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

The Book Town.

Urueña, Spain

Urueña

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

The Open Book.

Wigtown, Scotland

The Open Book

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

Very hot books in a very hot shop.

Quartzsite, Arizona

Reader's Oasis Books

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

Le Roy Lire.

Provins, France

Le Roy Lire

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

Osterley Bookshop

London, England

Osterley Bookshop

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

Yaguchi Bookstore.

Tokyo, Japan

Jimbōchō Book Town

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

In the rafters of the Book Barn, dating back to 1822

West Chester, Pennsylvania

Baldwin's Book Barn

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

Cărturești Carusel Bookstore

Bucharest, Romania

Cărturești Carusel Bookstore

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

Adams’ Antiquarian Bookstore.

Hobart, New York

Hobart Book Village

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

Singing Wind Bookshop

Benson, Arizona

Singing Wind Bookshop

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

Livraria Lello

Porto, Portugal

Livraria Lello

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

Bluestockings storefront in 2006.

New York, New York

Bluestockings Bookstore

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Renaissance Book Shop

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Renaissance Book Shop

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

The Bouquinistes sell vintage postcards and posters, too.

Paris, France

The Bouquinistes of Paris

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

Bunnies!
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Altadena, California

The Bunny Museum

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

Caioti Pizza Café

Los Angeles, California

Caioti Pizza Café

Pizza joint known for labor-inducing salad dressing.

Yes, there are winged women riding dragons.

Los Angeles, California

El Bordello Alexandra Apartments

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Behind the bar at Tiki Ti.

Los Angeles, California

Tiki-Ti

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Global Effects, Inc.

Los Angeles, California

Global Effects, Inc.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

Getting personal with the Schlazer meteorites

Los Angeles, California

UCLA Meteorite Collection

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

Los Feliz murder mansion

Los Angeles, California

Los Feliz Murder Mansion

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Central display at the Garden of Oz

Los Angeles, California

Garden of Oz

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden.

Los Angeles, California

Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

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