Places venuslady87 Wants to Go

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

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

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

Once one of the largest rooms full of books in the world, this bookstore basement is still a treat for bibliophiles.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

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

With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

Leaning shelves and books galore, this location is a book lover's utopia.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

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

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

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

Made of 41,900 pieces of mosaic, it took two years to piece together this giant egg.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

Rub it for a bit of good luck.

Rubbing salt on this small stone dog is said to make wishes come true.