Apparently there are lots of these kinds of things around the world. I never knew that. There's one in the Helsinki area in Finland as well: https://en.wikiped

Apparently there are lots of these kinds of things around the world. I never knew that. There's one in the Helsinki area in Finland as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pajam%C3%A4ki_Solar_System_Scale_Model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pajam%C3%A4ki_Solar_System_Sca... The funny thing is that its most central parts (the Sun and the inner planets) are in the least central location, in a wooded area in the suburbs, close to an industrial zone. Many other similar models seem to have placed the planetary monuments in public buildings or plazas. Helsinki? Yeah, we'll place it in the middle of the woods next to a bunch of garages. (The reason for the location of the Sun might actually be that, according to the Wikipedia article, the model was designed by an amateur astronomer who has had his own observatory in the area. The model of Sun is also on a hill, which is nice and might make it more visible from further away except that, you know, it's not actually emitting a ridiculous amount of light.)