Chapter 11 File: Eleven Eerie Closed & Abandoned Libraries
Better dead than read? Though the librarians' shushing days are long past, you still won't find many places quieter than these 11 abandoned libraries. ...
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Deserted Space: Photos Document NASA’s Abandoned Launch Pads
The race for space has shifted gears in recent years with the rise of private programs, leaving a series of amazing space-related graveyards around the United States, which this photographer has ...
Tiny Japanese Flip Books Filled with Secret Slots & Negative Spaces
Pushing the limits of the traditional printing craft, these stunning little Japanese flip books illustrate the power of slicing, splicing, zooming and panning, all to create a series of ...
Floor-to-Wall Books: Dizzying Sideways Cafe Design in NYC
Looking like a bookshop flipped ninety degrees, this coffee shop stands out even in Manhattan, a world of off-the-wall spaces and strange conceptual designs. This new location ...
Sensory Reading Experience Integrates Touch and Sound
Some might say that if you aren't experiencing the atmosphere of a story while you're reading, the author hasn't done her job. But we've all read a book that we loved so much, we wished we could ...
Edgy Art: Fore-Edge Paintings Hidden in Historical Books
Invisible at a glance, artists have long hidden fore-edge artwork in plain sight, resulting in works that are sometimes first spotted decades or even centuries after their creation. What looks ...
Word Worship: Church Converted to Awe-Inspiring Bookstore
This stunning 15th-century Dominican church is dedicated to much more than just one book - it contains thousands of them, in fact, stacked row upon row in a modern three-story addition. Located ...
Book of Cities: Rise & Fall of 10 Places Over 200 Years
We take it for granted that London and New York will grace the pages of books, but would you be surprised to learn that Madrid and Cairo were once as commonly referenced, or that Mumbai and ...
End Of The Story: 12 Abandoned & Forgotten Bookmobiles
Remember bookmobiles? Bookmobiles were bus-like rolling libraries that brought the joy of reading to folks who didn't have easy access to books. Remember books? ...
Little & Local: Staircase Cinema & Sidewalk Library Projects
Public art used to be synonymous with huge and impersonal and location-agnostic sculptures made of metal and marble. Countering that classic Modernist trend are installations like this pair: a ...
