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The Dusty, Diminutive Inhabitants of the San Diego Model Train Museum

Michelle Enemark April 11, 2014

One of the detailed miniature scenes

Musée Miniature et Cinéma

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

Permanently Closed

The Junction Valley Rail packed with passengers.

Bridgeport Charter Township, Michigan

Junction Valley Railroad

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

Curious Fact of the Week: A Scale Model of New York City

Allison Meier May 6, 2013

Permanently Closed

Copenhagen, Denmark

Royal Danish Naval Museum

A museum filled with tiny, adorable versions of the mighty Royal Danish Navy.

Yokohama, Japan

Hara Model Railway Museum

The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.

Ceiling Ship

Montreal, Québec

Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel (The Sailors' Church)

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

Civil unrest on a small scale.

Hamburg, Germany

Miniatur Wunderland

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

A portion of the 400-square-foot model

Québec City, Québec

Musee du Fort

A 400-square foot model of historic Quebec is the playing field for a state of the art light and sound show.

Queens, New York

Panorama of the City of New York

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The Jaca Citadel Military Miniatures Museum

32,000 tiny soldiers are posed in 23 historical settings.

Flemington, New Jersey

Northlandz

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

Jim Metcalf at Martini Junction

Needham, Massachusetts

Martini Junction

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

Red Square scaled down

Miniature Moscow

Back in the tiny USSR.

Tucson, Arizona

University of Arizona Mathematical Models Collection

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.