Making Models of Villages; Characteristic Settings in Miniature Being Prepared Here of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Japanese, Philippine, Turkish, Boer and Other Towns to Be Seen at Madison ...

Germany Miniature Wunderland, Hamburg: Essentially a fantastic model railway complex where trains trundle through Hamburg (pictured) and a number of other countries and regions, including the Alps.

Notwithstanding occasional examples in Germany, Japan and the US, the model village — of which Bekonscot and Bourton-on-the-Water are the most significant examples — is a peculiarly English, ...

When the U.S. banned imports from Japan and Germany during World War II, the villages slowly disappeared from American homes in the 1950s and 1960s.