Search Results: Landscape Model
Reproducing New York City's 320 square miles at a scale of 1 inch to 100 feet, the Panorama, which was initially created for the 1964 New York World's Fair, was brought up to date with the addition of hundreds of new scale model buildings in 1994.
A large miniature landscape of villages and scenes, with many mechanical parts, model railways, hills and roads. Partly a stylized and idealized version of the typical landscape of Pennsylvania, with significant historical buildings modeled as well. Much of the model...
One of the largest collections of model trains, with five working model layouts, depicting railway landscapes in New York and Pennsylvania. The emphasis of the museum is toy railroad cars and locomotives, which are displayed in glass cases throughout the museum. The...
Located in an old quarry, now the grounds of St. Bernard Abbey, this is a garden of miniature replicas of churches all over the world, executed in great detail, and landscaped into the rock. Largely the work of Brother Joseph Zoetl, who labored at the site almost...
A miniature landscape of the Biblical Holy Land, built by a local attorney named John Baptist Greco. Folk art enthusiasts saved it from the bulldozers after Greco's death in 1986, however the site is now abandoned and in disrepair.
An island in the middle of the Mississippi River, which has been developed into a tourist attraction, public park and recreational area, featuring the River Walk, a 5-block long outdoor relief map replica of the Mississippi River, made out of stacked slabs of concrete...
A large operating train model, with a detailed model landscape with over 200 buildings, 4,000 feet of track, and 600 lights, linked by almost five miles of electrical wire.
The visitor center for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the Redstone Arsenal, one of the principal rocket development sites in the nation. Soon after World War II, rocket research at the Redstone Arsenal, near Huntsville, transformed the landscape and...