A miniature model of the Old City of Jerusalem and its walls, part of Gulliver�s Gate, a miniature world being recreated in a 49,000-square-foot exhibit space in Times Square, is seen during a preview April 10, 2017.
In troubling political times, New York's latest tourist attraction offers visitors international escapism -- a $40 million installation of 50 nations in miniature: a kind of Gulliver's Travels for the 21st century.Four years in the making and now open for previews just off Times Square, Gulliver's Gate hopes to draw a million visitors a year to its Lilliputian-style world crafted by hundreds of artists around the world. / AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION
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