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The Book Town.

Urueña, Spain

Urueña

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

The stacks of John K. King Used & Rare Books.

Detroit, Michigan

John K. King Used & Rare Books

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

Brattle Book Shop.

Boston, Massachusetts

Brattle Book Shop

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Inside the stacks at The Book Thing

Baltimore, Maryland

The Book Thing

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Chamblin Bookmine

Jacksonville, Florida

Chamblin Bookmine

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

Civil Rights Memorial

Montgomery, Alabama

Civil Rights Memorial

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

Rattlesnake Saloon

Tuscumbia, Alabama

Rattlesnake Saloon

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

The Antioch Baptist Church, donated to the Whitney Plantation.

Edgard, Louisiana

Whitney Plantation

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

John Brown Monument

Akron, Ohio

John Brown Monument

A moving tribute to a leader of the American abolitionist movement.

America's Black Holocaust Museum reopened in a new building in February 2022.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

America's Black Holocaust Museum

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

Red Bluff

Foxworth, Mississippi

Red Bluff

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

Rowan Oak: Front Entrance

Oxford, Mississippi

Rowan Oak

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

Windsor Ruins

Claiborne County, Mississippi

Windsor Ruins

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

Chained Rock

Pineville, Kentucky

Chained Rock

This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

Iguazu Falls

Foz do Iguaçu, Argentina

Iguazu Falls

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

Lençóis Maranhenses

Santo Amaro do Maranhão, Brazil

Lençóis Maranhenses Dunes

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

Fort Jefferson, moat and wall

Key West, Florida

Dry Tortugas

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

View from the parking lot

East Lyme, Connecticut

Book Barn

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

New Haven, Connecticut

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

Fresh snow accentuates a warm ancient Puebloan city.

Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

Mesa Verde National Park

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The "front out" display at Alabama Booksmith

Homewood, Alabama

Alabama Booksmith

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

The main reading room of the Athenaeum.

Providence, Rhode Island

Providence Athenaeum

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Duquesne Incline

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Duquesne Incline

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

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