I will travel the world for a ... I love books, I love architecture, I love a good backstory, and libraries have all three. They are some of the most interesting and beautiful buildings we humans ...

We have handpicked the most gorgeous libraries in the world for you to marvel at ... forms part of a larger cultural complex of five buildings that has a glass canopy enclosing the entire space.

and frescos, while Taipei's Beitou Branch resembles a treehouse more than a shelter for books. We scoured the internet and found 20 of the most beautifully designed libraries around the world.

Visitors arrive via Calle Lunga Santa Maria Formosa (in the Castello neighborhood), a narrow street where a billboard proclaims Libreria Acqua Alta is “the most beautiful bookshop in the world ...