Globes

This giant, rotating globe was built to celebrate the expansion of a company that makes steam cleaners and pressure washers.

Soon after its unveiling, this giant inverted globe sparked controversy and was vandalized.

A massive rotating globe sits at the center of Babson Park.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

The figure atop this globe is from a Serbian play about a merchant's travels around the world.

A replica of a 17th-century map of the stars stands in the courtyard of a Belgian university.

This influential Renaissance-era library was once the haunt of kings and monks.

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.