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The main points of the east.
Mexico City, Mexico

Futura CDMX

A detailed model of Mexico City is the star attraction within this interactive exhibit inside an old theater.
Permanently Closed
The tiny hidden houses.
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Tiny Hidden Houses on Westerstraat

Seven mini rowhouses fill the gap between 54 and 70 Westerstraat.
Lego model of the VLT set against a background photograph of the Milky Way from the actual telescope site in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
Garching bei München, Germany

Lego Very Large Telescope

A surprisingly detailed model of one of the most powerful telescopes in the world.
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A Close-Up Look at Rare 17th-Century Anatomical Manikins

The true purpose of these objects remains something of a mystery.
Lizzie Philip September 17, 2018
Making of <em>The Last Photo of the Titanic Afloat</em>, (by Francis Brown, 1912), 2014.
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Miniature Models of History's Most Famous Photographs

A pair of artists spent years recreating these iconic images in three dimensions.
Anika Burgess May 11, 2018
Allegorical figures for the Demidoff monument, Gipsoteca Bartolini.
Florence, Italy

Gipsoteca Bartolini

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.
A 2.5-inch scale model on display at Train Mountain.
Chiloquin, Oregon

Train Mountain Railroad

All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.
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See Scale Models of the Greatest Skyscrapers Never Built

A new exhibition is full of diminutive versions of big buildings and even bigger ideas.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 4, 2017
Domed Galápagos tortoises have rounded shells that seem to help them right themselves.
islands

How a Flipped-Over Giant Tortoise Gets Its Feet Back on the Ground

And why some find it harder than others.
Natasha Frost December 1, 2017
Aerial view of Greenbelt, Maryland, 1939.
Greenbelt, Maryland

Greenbelt Historic District

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.
The model was relocated from the Smithsonian in 2010.
Washington, D.C.

USS Missouri Model Ship

The U.S. Navy’s preposterously detailed mini battleship took 77,000 hours to complete.
The Brick Train of Darlington.
Darlington, England

Brick Train

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.
The model railroad.
Jonesport, Maine

Maine Central Model Railroad

An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.
The Grand Model of Russia
Saint Petersburg, Russia

Grand Maket Rossiya (Grand Model of Russia)

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.
It still works, too.
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Found: A Miniature Working Model of the National Archives Vault

It had been forgotten down in the basement.
Elliot Carter March 6, 2017
A model of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Gladbrook, Iowa

Matchstick Marvels Museum

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.
Bow
Annapolis, Maryland

U.S.S. Agerholm Model

This 16-foot, intricately detailed model of the Gearing-class destroyer has been called the most detailed model ship ever built.
Vendors at the model train market
Barcelona, Spain

Model Train Market at Estació de França

For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.