This is the world's biggest train set which covers 1,150 square metres (12,380 square feet), features almost six miles of track and is still not complete .

The set covers six regions including America, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Germany and the Austrian Alps.

The American section features giant models of the Rocky Mountains, Everglades, Grand Canyon...

....and Mount Rushmore

The Swiss section has a mini-Matterhorn .

The Scandinavian part has a 4ft long passenger ship floating in a 'fjord'

It is expected to be finished in 2014, when the train set will cover more than 1,800 square metres (19, 376 sq ft) and feature almost 13 miles of track, by which time detailed models of parts of France, Italy and the UK will have been added .

It comprises 700 trains with more than 10,000 carriages and wagons .

The longest train is 46ft long .

The scenery includes 900 signals, 2,800 buildings, 4,000 cars - many with illuminated headlights...

...and 160,000 individually designed figures .

Thousands of kilograms of steel and wood was used to construct the scenery...

along with 700kg of artificial grass .

The 250,000 lights are rigged up to a system which mimics night and day by automatically turning them on and off .

The whole system is controlled from a massive high-tech nerve centre .

Twin brothers Frederick and Gerrit Braun, 41, began work on the 'Miniatur Wunderland' in 2000 .

The set is on display to the public and is so big that they employ more than 160 people to show visitors around their creation .

In total the set has taken 500,000 hours and more than £8 million to put together, the vast majority of which has come from ticket sales .

Gerrit said: "Our idea was to build a world that men, woman, and children can be equally astonished and amazed in"

Frederik added: "Whether gambling in Las Vegas, hiking in the Alps or paddling in Norwegian fjords - in Wunderland everything is possible" .

It isn't just a model railway, but a world which invites the visitors in different ways to dream and discover" .

Eagle-eyed visitors may spot Herbie the Love Bug...

....or a couple on a blanket in a field of sunflowers .

The Miniatur Wunderland is located next to the River Elbe in the Speicherstadt area of Hamburg, Germany

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This unique museum, built in the Netherlands is one in the world.


The World's first a spectacular experience around the human body.


CORPUS is a 'journey through the human body' during which the visitor can see, feel and hear how the human body works and what roles healthy food, healthy life and plenty of exercise plays.


CORPUS offers a variety of information and provides education and entertainment with this journey as well as a vast number of permanent and variable exhibitions.
 

CORPUS has been realised in a 35-meter high transparent building with the contours of the human body projecting from it. The eye-catching building is situated along the A44 highway between Amsterdam and The Hague.


Questions as 'Why do I have to sleep?', 'what happens when I sneeze', 'how does my hair grow' are answered in CORPUS by means of tangible, visible and audible conceptions during the 'journey through the human body'.


CORPUS uses the latest technology in the field of imagery, sound and 3D effects to present and explain all aspects of the medical aspects of the human body.






Here you will find all sorts of information about the human body and CORPUS!
Childeren from 8 years and older are welcome to visit CORPUS.






CORPUS provides a number of congress, meeting and exposition facilities. The large conference hall will have a capacity of approximately 540 people. There is also the option to divide the conference hall in a smaller hall and 4 breakout rooms.





CORPUS 'journey through the human body:

The attraction of the human body (about 55 minutes)
8 languages audio tour
Medical information center (about 1 hour)
Entrance EUR 16,50
Group discounts

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Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, PA. It's a museum of medical oddities. They have many exhibits of conjoined twins... It's extremely disturbing.




The Mutter Museum, part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, is interesting if nothing else. The museum contains specimens of different medical conditions. The Mutter Museum was originally intended to give medical students the chance to see the effects of rare conditions. Today it still serves that purpose, and fascinates the public with some macabre items you might expect to find at a Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum. Some readers may find exhibits mentioned in this article to be quite gross.




Thomas Dent Mutter presented his collection of unique materials to the college in 1858, and the museum grew from there. The Mutter Museum's collection now has over 20,000 artifacts. The artifacts include fluid-preserved specimens, skeletal specimens, medical instruments, models, and much more.




In 1874, the autopsy of Siamese Twins Chang and Eng Bunker (the first set of Siamese, or conjoined, twins) was performed in the museum. The twins' connected livers, as well as a plaster cast of their bodies, has been on display ever since.



Visitors to the Mutter Museum can also see the "Soap Woman". She may have died sometime in the 19th century. Certain chemicals present in the soil she was buried in turned her into soap, literally.






Other specimens include a preserved 5 foot long human colon, preserved human fetuses, and part of the brain of President Garfield's assassin, Charles Guiteau. The Mutter Museum is also widely know for it's collection of skulls, as well as a collection of 2,000 objects people have swallowed.
 
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