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BUILD YOUR OWN CHICAGO with these miniature paper construction models. Your favorite Chicago landmarks suitable for mailing to a friend, or keep it for yourself as a souvenir of your visit. Click here to find our catalog as well as helpful information about how to construct the models.
BUILD YOUR OWN NEW YORK, too, with these miniature postcard models. New York landmarks suitable for mailing to a friend, or keep it for yourself as a souvenir of your visit. Click here to find our catalog as well as helpful information about how to construct the models.

Visit the MINNESOTA MUSEUM OF THE MISSISSIPPI, whose collections spotlight unusual natural and manmade phenomena. See reports from field trips, intriguing home-built environments and the popular Pancakes Across America galleries.

Whet your whistle with some DELICIOUS SPARKLING TEMPERANCE DRINKS from all over the world.

Or pour a frosty mug with the GREAT AMERICAN ROOT BEER SHOWDOWN, an experiment to discover the best bottled root beer in the USA. Find out about obscure brands of soda pop you may have never heard of before.


Unusual houses and neighborhood landmarks, all things that make CHICAGO MARVELOUS.

PAPER MODEL DESIGN WORKSHOP, for card model design tips and other related topics.

Take a trip down the alley with the RAT PATROL bike squadron, made from 99% recycled trash. Explore a part of the city you may not often visit. Hear the call of the Rat, drawing you to ride endlessly in circles and Buy the Slice.

DOWN CHICAGO'S DRAIN, a trip down the Chicago & Illinois Rivers on a boat made out of scavenged materials.

Copyright 2008 Matt Bergstrom

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