20 of the Most Exquisite Libraries in the World

STUTTGART CITY LIBRARY, GERMANY

Situated in a concrete cube in the heart of southern Germany, this isn’t your average library. The main attraction—a five-story reading room shaped like an upside-down pyramid—looks more like an M.C. Escher drawing than a library… until you notice the hundreds of thousands of neatly stacked books, that is. Cozy? Not really. Beautiful? You bet.