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September 25, 1962: Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper poses for this amazing portrait. So much awesome NASA showmanship on display here. All official photos should use a fog machine. (NASA)

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Tippi Hedren in a promotional image for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, 1963. Photo by Philippe Halsman

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Astronaut Sally Ride Speaks With Gloria Steinem About Being the First American Woman in Space

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Today the Department of Miniature Marvels is delighting in an awesome new project by Google Maps (previously featured here). They traveled to Miniatur Wunderland, the world’s largest model railway, located in Hamburg, Germany, and mapped it so that it can be explored on their Street View site.

“…to capture the nooks and crannies in Miniatur Wunderland, we worked with our partner at Ubilabs to build an entirely new—and much smaller—device. Tiny cameras were mounted on tiny vehicles that were able to drive the roads and over the train tracks, weaving through the Wunderland’s little worlds to capture their hidden treasures.

Populated by over 200,000 itty-bitty citizens, Miniatur Wunderland features 13,000 meters (42,650 feet) of track that travel through miniature replicas of German provinces, famous locations in the USA, and a fully functional airport.

Click here to learn more about this geektastic project and take your own virtual tour of Miniatur Wunderland, which now also contains a miniature Google Street View car that was created to commemorate collaboration.