The world's largest railway exhibit is on Google Maps — and trust us, you'll want to see this

More than a million people visit the quirky, high-tech and massive Miniatur Wunderland — the world's largest, tiniest-scale model railway exhibit — in Hamburg, Germany each year, but now you can do it all from the comfort of your own computer.

Google Maps has added Street View to the intricate exhibit, which features 8 miles of railway tracks and follow 900 trains each day. While model trains may not typically be your thing, stay with us. You're about to geek out.

The trains move about modeled countries like Switzerland, Germany and the U.S., as well as Las Vegas and Mt. Rushmore, with an incredible attention to detail. More than 200,000 figurines come to life within the exhibit, along with computer-controlled vehicles such as fire trucks that put out fires and traffic cops who pull over speeding cars Read more...