It is a singular experience. No where else on earth can you see, well, earth. Not like this at least; earth the way it really looks, without distortion. As you walk down along the walkway, bathed in a soft blue light from the back-lit stained-glass surrounding you everything sounds strange; you can hear your own breathing as if it was someone else right up against your ear.
It’s called the Mapparium, and this marvelous glass globe in Boston, MA started with a spinal injury.
It is 3 stories tall and bisected in the middle by a walkway. The stained glass globe is illuminated from the outside, once by hundreds of lamps, today updated to LEDs.
It’s fascinating to view the earth this way for the first time.
It is a world seen accurately if you’re looking at landmass, but a world frozen in time if you’re looking at politics.
Standing at the center, one can hear onesself in full surround sound; it is as disconcerting as it is striking.
clipped from: curiousexpeditions.org 
