Showing posts with the label Models

Waterloopbos: Where Dutch Engineers Learned to Play With The Sea

May 27, 2020

A quarter of Netherlands lie below the sea level. Most of these low-lying areas are land reclaimed from the sea. The region was originally o...

The Langweil Model of Prague

Feb 21, 2020

At Prague’s City Museum there is a large, unfinished paper and carboard model of Prague depicting how the ancient city appeared in the early...

Glass Flowers And Sea Creatures: Leopold And Rudolf Blaschka’s Ultra Realistic Glass Models

Jan 7, 2020

A glass flower at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. It is nearly impossible to preserve a dead specimen in a pristine manner. Larg...

Rod Stewart’s Model Railway

Nov 20, 2019

For the past 26 years British rock star Rod Stewart has been secretly building a massive model railway in the attic of his Los Angles home....

The 40-Foot Studebaker President

Aug 5, 2019

Few companies escaped the Stock Market Crash of 1929 that plunged the United States and much of the western world into an abyss of economic...

The Relief Map of Guatemala

Jul 25, 2019

Sandwiched between Mexico on the northwest and El Salvador and Honduras on the east, the country of Guatemala may be small but it has a dive...

The 387 Houses of Peter Fritz

Apr 15, 2019

In 1993, while rummaging through a junk shop in Vienna, Austria, artist Oliver Croy made an extraordinary discovery—hundreds of beautiful, ...

Cloughmills’ Crochet Village

Jan 18, 2019

The village of Cloughmills in County Antrim, in Northern Ireland, has a small model replica of their village displayed in their village hall...

Walt Disney’s Backyard Railway: The Carolwood Pacific Railroad

Jan 2, 2019

Even before Walt Disney drew up plans for the first Disneyland Park, he knew what to include in it—a rideable miniature railroad. Indeed, he...

The Biggest Little Railway in the World

Dec 17, 2018

Last year, a team of British railway enthusiasts got together to engineer the longest miniature railway journey in the world. The tracks tha...

The $8.5 Million Astolat Dollhouse Castle: World’s Most Expensive Dollhouse

Jul 14, 2016

Appraised at $8.5 million, the Astolat Dollhouse Castle costs more than a fully furnished condo in New York City. But then, this is no ordin...

The Strangely Seductive 18th Century Anatomical Wax Models

Jun 2, 2016

These beautiful wax models of sensuous women lying supine, with their heads tipped back, and lips parted in ecstasy, look like they are from...

Martini Junction: A Miniature Railway Hidden in The Forest

Mar 7, 2016

In the small but densely wooded Needham town forest, outside Boston, lies a secret attraction — a miniature model railway consisting of 120 ...

World’s Largest Railway Model is Now on Google “Mini” Street View

Jan 14, 2016

Google’s Street View, that lets you explore the world through the virtual eyes of street level cameras, has now shrunk itself to the size of...

The Mississippi River Basin Model

Sep 10, 2015

After decades of devastating flood in the Mississippi River Basin, Congress passed the Flood Control Act of 1928 which called for immediate ...

Bekonscot: The World’s Oldest Model Village

Aug 17, 2015

Bekonscot is a toy village located in the English town of Beaconsfield, in Buckinghamshire. Spread out over 1.5 acres, this Lilliputian vill...

Eartha: World's Largest Rotating Globe

Aug 11, 2015

The world's largest rotating globe, nicknamed "Eartha", is located at the headquarters of DeLorme, a business that provides ma...

The Great Polish Map of Scotland

Aug 3, 2015

The Great Polish Map of Scotland, also known as the Mapa Scotland, is a large three-dimensional, scale model of Scotland, with lakes, mounta...

The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death

May 22, 2015

On the third floor of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the state of Maryland, in Baltimore, the United States, the chief medical...

The Recursive Model Villages of Bourton-on-the-Water

Apr 15, 2015

Bourton-on-the-Water is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England that lies on a wide flat vale within the “Cotswolds Area of O...