Dioramas

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

This quaint museum tells about more than just the birth of Jesus: "betlémy" are an important piece of Czech history.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

Intricate storybook scenes are tucked inside these shadow boxes, which are tucked inside a library in the Pocono Mountains.

This workshop and small museum is dedicated to tiny, delicate figurines that began as a subversive craft after the French Revolution.

A miniature diorama that recounts the brilliant stories of author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.