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Marvelous Maps and Measures
A Panorama View of New York City
A 9,335 square foot architectural model of the entire New York City
Foucoult's Pendulum and the Paris Pantheon
19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists
Floyd Bennett Field
Home of aviation trailblazers
Apachetas of Chivay
Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level
Hereford Mappa Mundi
The largest known medieval map of the world
Old Observatory in Tartu
First point in the Struve Geodetic Arc, a 19th century undertaking to measure the Earth's size and shape
Juan de la Cosa Map
The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop
Sala delle Carte Geografiche (Hall of Maps)
54 exquisite hand painted Renaissance maps decorating a Medici storage room
Piri Reis Map at Topkapi Palace
1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary
Mercator Museum
Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator
