The travel site Fodor's has named "The World's 20 Most Stunning Libraries," and invites its readers to include them on their summer travel itineraries.

Six United States libraries make the Fodor's list: the Peabody Library in Baltimore, the New York Public Library, the Boston Public Library, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, the Central Library in Seattle, and our very own Los Angeles Central Library. Fodor's calls the Los Angeles Library "a masterpiece of Art Deco architecture" and notes the murals by Dean Cornwall that depict California history.

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