Mini Me

Hamburg is home to more than 40 museums, including the Hamburg dungeon, a coffee and spice museum, an Afghani culture museum, an erotic art museum, a `blind`museum, a customs museum, and......Miniatur Wunderland, which we visited on Wednesday. This museum is a mini wonder; it showcases the world's largest model train and is -- shockingly enough -- the most-visited tourist attraction in Hamburg (at least according to claims on their website).

It's freaking weird.

They have created a mini world, including Las Vegas (shown both by day and by night).

And a lot of Hamburg's famous areas. Here is Hamburg's Michel, a baroque church built in the late 1600s and the beloved landmark of our city. The picture below gives you a sense of scale.

In addition to Hamburg and Las Vegas, the museum features other German areas like Harz and Knuffingen, additional American landscapes (Mount Rushmore, Miami, Grand Canyon), plus Scandanavia.

And detailed scense like a couple sunbathing in a field of sunflowers.

And a dead person found by police in a river.


Like I said, weird.