Urueña, Spain
Urueña
This charming, medieval walled village is Spain's first "book town."
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Urueña, Spain
This charming, medieval walled village is Spain's first "book town."
Detroit, Michigan
This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.
Baltimore, Maryland
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.
Jacksonville, Florida
A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.
Montgomery, Alabama
Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.
Tuscumbia, Alabama
You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.
Edgard, Louisiana
The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.
Akron, Ohio
A moving tribute to a leader of the American abolitionist movement.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.
Foxworth, Mississippi
A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.
Oxford, Mississippi
William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.
Claiborne County, Mississippi
An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.
Pineville, Kentucky
This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.
Foz do Iguaçu, Argentina
A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.
Santo Amaro do Maranhão, Brazil
A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.
Key West, Florida
These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.
East Lyme, Connecticut
With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.
New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.
Homewood, Alabama
Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.
Providence, Rhode Island
A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!