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1. Mini-Europe
Brussels, Belgium

If you don’t have the time or the money to see all of Europe, a quick trip to Mini-Europe in Belgium will show you all the sights and sounds of the continent in no time at all. There, you can tour shrunken versions of the Eifel Tower, leaning tower of Pisa and Coliseum. Also, with the park's interactive exhibits, you’ll be able to witness history in addition to sightseeing with exhibits like the crumbling Berlin Wall.

2. Ave Maria Grotto
Cullman, Alabama

The Ave Maria Grotto, a beautiful display resting on the grounds of Alabama’s only Benedictine monastery, is also known as “Jerusalem in Miniature.” The Ave Maria Grotto is really the legacy of Bavarian-born Brother Joseph Zoettl, a Benedictine monk who spent decades of his life carving miniature versions of Europe’s best-known churches as well as religious shrines. Today, one can tour the more than 125 figures that serve as Zoettl’s tribute to his faith.

3. George Bush Presidential Library
College Station, Texas

If you can’t find your way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in our nation’s capital, you can always treat yourself to a tour of the small-scale version of the president’s home by viewing the incredible mini-White House. The Zeifel family invested more than a million dollars of their own funds into the incredibly accurate miniature version of the White House currently on display in Texas.

4. The Great American Railway
Northlandz, Flemington, New Jersey

Model train enthusiasts will be blown away by Bruce Williams’ masterpiece. With more than 4,000 buildings, 100 trains and eight miles of track, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more impressive miniature rail system than the one housed at Northlandz in New Jersey. Although, with some of the mountains in the display as tall as 30 feet in height, the Great American Railway might be stretch your notions of “miniature.”

5. Miniature Book Society
Ohio

The Miniature Book Society devotes itself to all the novels and publications most of us don’t have a prayer of reading without some serious magnification and displays its collection throughout the country during the year. By definition, miniature books can be no more than three inches at any given point of length, height or width. Cincinnati-based librarian Mark Palkovic is president of the Miniature Book Society as well as owner of its most incredible specimen. Palkovic possesses a .9 mm by .9mm copy of “Chameleon” by Anton Chekhov. The book is the smallest that there is, and he has the certificate from Guinness to prove it.

6. The National Museum of the Philippines
Manila, Philippines

The art of miniature painting goes back centuries. In India such a skill is still considered a fine art, and long before photography was invented, the wealthy commissioned miniature portraits of their loved ones to carry with them. The title of world’s smallest painting is not official, but a 1/4 inch by 3/8 inch oil work titled “The Harvest” by Norris Castillo often carries the unofficial moniker. The painting is on display in the Philippines – if you can find it with the naked eye.

7. The Great American Dollhouse Museum
Danville, Kentucky

Anyone who spent parts of his or her childhood crouched behind the exposed wall of a dollhouse rearranging furniture and moving tiny family members from room to room will want to visit the Great American Dollhouse Museum in Kentucky. There, you’ll be able to tour an entire village of dollhouses ranging from Victorian-style homes to log cabins, all designed to depict the turn of the 20th century. With 6,000 square feet, there is hardly a facet of life that isn’t depicted in miniature.