Stop on this walk
Earth
Karel Havlíček Borovský Monument
📍 Stand at the foot of the monument steps facing the statue, with the lake at your back to the left. Earth at this scale is 0.93 inches — near enough a quarter, if you have one in your pocket to hold up against it.
At true scale: 0.93 in (2.4 cm) across
About this place
Home, at 0.93 inches across and 945 feet from the sundial. The Moon would orbit about 28 inches out from it — close enough that you could hold the whole Earth–Moon system at arm's length.
While you're here
- Shedd Aquarium Worth seeing A few minutes northwest along the causeway. Its front steps are also the classic skyline-and-lake photo spot on Museum Campus.
Next stop →
Keep west toward Lake Shore Drive. Mars is at the far end of the causeway, at the equestrian statue.
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