Libraries

This airy five-floor library and museum houses thousands of books and rotating exhibits on Japanese monsters and anime.

The world's smallest Austen museum is inside an unassuming phone booth.

In 1889, a small group of women began meeting to discuss literature, art, and other topics. Their every-other-week salon grew into a lending library that still exists today.

The oldest library in Pune.

Designated as an Underground Railroad research site.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

An unassuming corner inside downtown Orlando's library offers a whole new world of the park and its history.

Welsh literary history is preserved in the delicate pages of these medieval manuscripts.

Home to a collection of artifacts and specimens from one of the world's preeminent geologists

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

A mummy and sarcophagus are part of the many wonders in this library's collection.

Inside this library, the history of Los Angeles is retold through a mural.

A replica of the self-taught naturalist's iconic cabin stands inside a library near his hometown.

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.