Waterloopbos: Where Dutch Engineers Learned to Play With The Sea
Kaushik Patowary
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...
Showing posts with the label Models
The Langweil Model of Prague
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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...
