Toys

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

A teddy bear sits on a chair watching the sunset from the mountaintop—just as the late Dan Clancy had done since childhood.

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.

A haunting army of decomposing, moss-covered stuffed animals and dolls guard this swinging truss.

An unusual assortment of steerable wooden sleds is on display in a library in New Jersey where they were first invented.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.