Places Kelly Catalfamo Wants to Go

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

A true treehouse near Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Rent a barrel for a personal view of where the Baltic Sea meets the Gulf of Riga.

Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside, providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora.

This 75-year-old Shakespearean sculpture is painted by a local artist for every season.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

This Chinese art gallery is hidden inside the Sunrider Corporation headquarters.

The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

An unmistakable facial pareidolia in the Julian Alps also includes a fantastic tale.

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.