Japanese artist Takanori Aiba makes tiny, enchanting worlds, such as this fanciful castle wrapped around an imitation bonsai tree. His whole site is a browsing delight. The only pity is that his creations aren't real...

Artist and photographer Carrie M. Becker re-imagined Barbie (the doll) as a pathological hoarder, and arranged Barbie's dream house as such. She explains some of the thought behind the project in her artist's stateme...

There are thousands of tiny soldiers locked in eternal combat in Valencia, Spain, housed in the Museo de los Soldaditos de Plomo (museum of the little lead soldiers). What started as a small collection belonging to Mu...

(Video Link) A brilliant machinist named Patelo made this 12cc V-12 compressed air engine. Except for the screws, he cut all of the parts from scratch. This video shows him grinding the parts, assembling them, and t...

Gallery O in Boulder, Colorado has only a litt...  ...artists: eight by ten feet. So it specializes in miniatures . Recently it exhibited tiny chairs made by differ...

Randy Hage is a Los Angeles-based artist on a...  ...said. There are more examples of Hage's awesome miniatures in the capsule he curated for How to Be a Retrona...

Christine de Pizan wrote Othea's Epistle to He...  ...ed, written in Middle French and illustrated with miniatures . Sixteen of those miniatures

James Cauty makes miniature scenes of riots and protests in empty jam jars. As you can see at the video link, some of them even feature flashing lights on the police vehicles. You may remember Cauty from his music...

For forty years, Alexander Perfiliev has been making miniature model firearms. They're duplicates of the actual designs (such as the Makarov pistol pictured above) scaled way, way down. English Russia reports that th...

What a lovely photograph from yesteryear, eh? Not quite. It's a model. Specifically, it's one of the astoundingly detailed models of 1950s American homes, cars, and street scenes made by Michael Paul Smith. His...