Places Kelsey Kennedy Wants to Go

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

This record-setting hydraulic dam in the Montana badlands was one of FDR's most ambitious public works.

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

Display that gathers the basic elements of the universe in one convenient location.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

The oldest university museum west of the Mississippi retains its 19th century feel.

The World's Largest Bull.

These century-old beehive-shaped kilns were built to produce charcoal for nearby mines.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.