The Vatican Secret Archives, Vatican City

Libraries are havens for many of the world’s book lovers. While eBooks may have become the more convenient alternative in recent years, one can’t deny how great it feels to hold an actual book and flip through its pages. While most of them are open to the public, there is one particular library that prefers otherwise. That’s because the books it keeps detail many significant moments of the world’s history.

Although it opened its doors to the public, albeit briefly, last March 2020, the Vatican’s Secret Archives has mostly kept its doors closed. In fact, even the most interested scholars and historians can’t easily access its contents. To top it off, a book needs to be at least 75 years old before being stored in the Secret Archives. With that said, while it has undoubtedly sparked the interest of many people through the years, Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons book takes credit for giving the library a new level of popularity.