Places rog18 Wants to Go

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

This collection of unique liquids allows visitors to wander the waters of Iceland's glaciers.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

While this is positively the smallest library in Canada, it aspires to be the smallest in the world.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

This former prison now houses a lovely library devoted to Quebec's oft-maligned English-speaking history.