Libraries and bookstores are similar in our main focus: we like books, and we like to share books for people to take home. A lot of us have worked in both places, and encouraging people to do more reading is always a good idea.

And if the location of all these books is also lovely? Well, that’s a great bonus!

So, check out this article from Smithsonian magazine about an incredible bookstore: See a Stunningly Surreal Bookstore in China.

“Located west of Chengdu in the Sichuan province, Dujiangyan Zhongshuge boasts spiraling staircases, curved archways and strategically placed mirrors; these architectural features work in tandem to create the illusion of an impossible space similar to the one depicted in Escher’s gravity-defying Relativity (1953).

Architect Li Xiang, founder of Shanghai-based firm X+Living, designed the roughly 10,500-square-foot bookshop, which draws inspiration from the Unesco World Heritage–listed Dujiangyan irrigation system. Certain architectural elements resemble water, nodding to the many rivers that flow through the city.

“We moved the local landscape into the indoor space,” Li tells Architectural Digest’s Elizabeth Stamp. “The project is located in Dujiangyan, which is a city with a long history of water conservancy development, so in the main area, you [can] see the construction of the dam integrated into the bookshelves.” “

Admire all of the photos in the full article, right here.