Flushing Meadows/Corona Park, Queens
Peter Muller–Munk, 1964

The most visible remnant from the 1964–1965 World’s Fair, the Unisphere is a 140–foot–tall globe displaying the continents of the Earth in shining stainless steel and is meant to signify the coming together of all nations. It weighs 900,000 pounds and is the largest globe in the world. The fair was a magnificent event but a financial disaster, costing the city millions of dollars.