Big Apple bound? While you’re there, plan a visit to Gulliver’s Gate, a fascinating new $40 million entertainment option that’s a scaled-down recreation of some of the world’s most iconic places. Amazing technology includes a fully functioning miniature airport with planes actually taxiing, taking off and landing. It encompasses an entire city block in Times Square, where the new 1,500-square-foot model of a modern airport is only one of the features created by head model designer Adrian Davies. There are also reams of highways, roads, tunnels, bridges and railroad tracks with fully functioning trains traversing routes through mountains, villages and cityscapes. Upon completion, Gulliver’s Gate will boast 1,000 trains and approximately 12,000 train wagons.

To date, completed exhibits include New York City, Latin America, Asia and Europe. The New York City exhibit is a breathtaking recreation of familiar locations, from Grand Central Station and Central Park to the Empire State Building and neighborhoods filled with cafés, hotels and pizzerias. Everywhere, the city’s energy was painstakingly modeled, down to the cars, trains and figures of people, including a tightrope walker straddling the space between chandeliers in Grand Central Station.

In Latin America, there’s a watery replica of Argentina’s Iguazu Falls; a working Panama Canal afloat with freighters negotiating actual functioning locks; the ancient sites of Machu Picchu and Chichen Itza; the bustling city of Valparaiso, Chile; and Buenos Aires’ famous La Boca district. Move on to the Middle East and discover the Chords Bridge leading into Jerusalem, where well-known landmarks, including the Western Wall, Dome of the Rock and the Via Dolorosa, were recreated in intricate detail. Within Asia, visitors can marvel at the Shanghai Global Financial Center, built using 3D printing; China’s Great Wall and Forbidden City; the Taj Mahal; Angkor Wat; and the vivid landscapes of Vietnam and Malaysia. Instantly recognizable landmarks in the Europe exhibit — built in 137 days by 31 model makers — include the Dolomites, Norway’s sparkling fjords, Pisa’s tilting tower, the Colossus of Rhodes, Mount Olympus and Austria’s Danube Tower.