London, England
Osterley Bookshop
Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.
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London, England
Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.
Kansas City, Missouri
This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.
Jacksonville, Florida
A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.
Tokyo, Japan
A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.
Wonthaggi, Australia
Leaning shelves and books galore, this location is a book lover's utopia.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.
West Chester, Pennsylvania
This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.
Bucharest, Romania
This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.
Hobart, New York
This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.
London, England
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
São Paulo, Brazil
The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.
Alnwick, England
This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.
New York, New York
New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.
New York, New York
Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.
Flateyri, Iceland
The oldest bookstore in Iceland.
Salamanca, Spain
The facade of this 16th-century building is decorated with carvings of 300 seashells.
Salamanca, Spain
An unusual but excellent display created in the 1930s as propaganda against the Freemasons.
Duffus, Scotland
A beachside cave filled with Bronze Age metalwork, pottery, and human remains.
Elgin, Scotland
Once considered one of the country's finest motte and bailey castles.
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.
Lyminster, England
This carved stone slab marked the grave of a local dragon slayer, who makes a killer pie.
Trsteno, Croatia
The oldest arboretum on the Dalmatian coast doubles as the gardens of Kings Landing in "Game of Thrones."