Here are eight of the most beautiful libraries in the world, whose amazing ambience would make you reach out for the most insipid book just to bask in their spectacular surroundings. Inhale the Baroque beauty of the amazing bibliothèques of Austria’s Admont Abbey and the National Library, while savouring the ancient wisdom of the treasured tomes of Klementinum and Strahov in the Czech Republic.

Here’s our list of the 10 biggest castles in the world. Castles conjures thoughts of fairytales, royalty and wonderment. Yet, the locales and structures imagined in these fantastic fables are founded in overwhelming reality.