Do you enjoy visiting the local library for leisure purposes? Perhaps you have a hefty sized paper to hand in and need to use the library for research? Whatever the reason for visiting, the library has always had a place in our hearts. Many of todays buildings are bland, boring places and of course you go there for the books, not the surrounding, right? Wrong! Take a look at these 18 incredible libraries which are just as interesting as the information they hold within. Prepare to be awestruck!
If you liked part 1 then check out part 2 below!
These Amazing Libraries Will Get You Reading In No Time – Part 2
Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
![royal portuguese cabinet of reading](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/royal-portuguese-cabinet-of-reading.jpg)
Geisel Library at University of California, San Diego, San Diego, Calif.
![Geisel-Library](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Geisel-Library.jpg)
Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Great Hall, Washington D.C., U.S.A
![Thomas_Jefferson_Great_Hall library of congress](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Thomas_Jefferson_Great_Hall-library-of-congress.jpg)
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
![yale beinecke](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/yale-beinecke.jpg)
General Library at University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
![library portugal](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/library-portugal.jpg)
National Library of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
![library belarus](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/library-belarus.jpg)
History Room at La Sorbonne, Paris, France
![sorbonne](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sorbonne.jpg)
Suzzallo Library at University of Washington, Seattle
![suzzallo-library-jpg](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/suzzallo-library-jpg.jpg)
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
![Trinity college dublin](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Trinity-college-dublin.jpg)
Balme Library at the University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
![balme library ghana](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/balme-library-ghana.jpg)
Library at Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, Italy
![Pontifical Lateral Rome Italy](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Pontifical-Lateral-Rome-Italy.jpg)
Philological "Brain" Library at the Free University, Berlin, Germany
![berlin library interior](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/berlin-library-interior.jpg)
Library at the Benedictine Monastery of Admont, Admont, Austria
![Admont-Monastery-Library-Austria](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Admont-Monastery-Library-Austria.jpg)
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
![fisher library canada](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Library-canada.jpg)
Library of the Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, Canada
![library canadian parliament](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/library-canadian-parliament.jpg)
National Library of France, Paris, France
![french national library](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/french-national-library.jpg)
New York Public Library, New York, N.Y
![new-york-public-library-reading-room](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/new-york-public-library-reading-room.jpg)
Joe & Rika Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
![Mansueto library](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Mansueto-library.jpg)
If you liked part 1 then check out part 2 below!
These Amazing Libraries Will Get You Reading In No Time – Part 2