Terra Collections

8 stops The Seven Summits The highest peak on every continent. Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Vinson and Puncak Jaya (plus Kosciuszko for the Australian mainland) as 3D terrain models, all measured from real elevation. Mount Everest, Aconcagua, Argentina, Denali, Alaska, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania and more Read this collection → 12 stops The great American road trip A dozen parks, one long drive. Plan the route, then hold it: the parks every American road trip is built around, as printable terrain from USGS laser-scan elevation data. Grand Canyon, Arizona, Yosemite Valley, California, Yellowstone: Old Faithful and the caldera, Zion Canyon, Utah and more Read this collection → 12 stops For skiers and snowboarders The slopes you have skied, or dream of. Aspen, Whistler, Chamonix, Kitzbuhel and more: a keepsake for skiers and snowboarders. Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Aspen, Colorado, Vail, Colorado, Telluride, Colorado and more Read this collection → 5 stops For racing fans The circuits, from above. The Nurburgring, Spa, Suzuka and Laguna Seca, with the hills the cars climb and drop through. Nurburgring, Germany, Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium, Suzuka Circuit, Japan, Laguna Seca, California and more Read this collection → 12 stops The bucket list Twelve places to see once in your life. The places people save up for. Print the ones you have seen as a souvenir, or the ones you are still planning as motivation. Giza Pyramids, Egypt, Machu Picchu, Peru, Grand Canyon, Arizona, Petra, Jordan and more Read this collection → 11 stops Romantic escapes Honeymoons, anniversaries and proposals. A gift for the trip you took together, or the one you are about to: lagoons, volcanic islands and fairy-tale towns, as terrain you can hold. Bora Bora, French Polynesia, Santorini, Greece, Capri, Italy, Tahiti, French Polynesia and more Read this collection → 11 stops Places that shaped history Where the ground helped decide what happened. A beach, a pass, a volcano and a dam: eleven places where geography changed the story, for teachers, history fans and curious kids. Omaha Beach, Normandy, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Mount Vesuvius, Italy, Krakatoa, Indonesia and more Read this collection → 12 stops Geography class Landforms every student should know. A set for classrooms and homeschoolers: a shield volcano, a stratovolcano, a canyon, a caldera, a desert basin and the roof of the world, all measured from real elevation. Grand Canyon, Arizona, Mount Everest, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Mount Fuji, Japan and more Read this collection → 9 stops D-Day and the road to Germany Beaches, bridges and the Bulge. The Normandy landing grounds and the battles that followed, for history classes and wargaming tables. Omaha Beach, Normandy, Utah Beach, Normandy, Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France and more Read this collection → 11 stops Scars from space Craters left by things that fell from the sky. Meteor Crater, the Ries, Vredefort and more: places where an asteroid or comet struck the Earth, as 3D terrain from real elevation. The best of them are almost perfect bowls and rings, which makes them some of the best STL files in the library. Meteor Crater, Arizona, Wolfe Creek Crater, Australia, Lonar Crater, India, Pingualuit Crater, Canada and more Read this collection → 12 stops Mountains for stargazing Where the big telescopes live. Telescopes want high, dry, dark mountains. These are the summits where astronomers look at the universe, from Hawaii to the Atacama, as terrain you can hold. Mauna Kea, Hawaii, Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Teide, Tenerife, Haleakala, Maui and more Read this collection → 12 stops Other worlds, right here Places that look like the Moon or Mars. Astronauts trained in several of these places, and space agencies still test their rovers and habitats in them. Lava fields, red deserts and acid pools: real terrain that looks like it belongs on another planet. Craters of the Moon, Idaho, Askja, Iceland, Meteor Crater, Arizona, Valle de la Luna, Chile and more Read this collection → 18 stops Mysteries and the unexplained UFOs, crop circles, monsters and lost worlds. Places tied to stories nobody has fully settled: the secret test site at Area 51, the Wiltshire fields where crop circles keep appearing, the lights of Hessdalen, the Nazca desert, Loch Ness and the Bermuda Triangle. Embossify models the real ground from real elevation data, so what you hold is the land itself; what happened there is up to you to decide. Area 51, Nevada, Devils Tower, Wyoming, Mount Rainier, Washington, Avebury and the Wiltshire crop-circle fields, England and more Read this collection → 12 stops UFO country Where people go to watch the sky. The best known places for sightings you can actually visit: the Extraterrestrial Highway beside Area 51, a watchtower in the Colorado desert, the Marfa lights, a Nova Scotia harbor, and a landing pad built by a town in Alberta. Embossify models the real ground from real elevation data, so each of these is the actual land, whatever you think is in the sky above it. Area 51, Nevada, Rachel, Nevada: the Extraterrestrial Highway, UFO Watchtower, Colorado, Marfa Lights viewing area, Texas and more Read this collection → 12 stops Sacred and mysterious sites of North America Rock art, medicine wheels and ancient earthworks. Places that Indigenous peoples held sacred or built on, and that still raise questions: Blackfoot rock art at Writing-on-Stone, the Bighorn Medicine Wheel, the carved Teaching Rocks in Ontario, Chaco Canyon and Serpent Mound. They are shown as real terrain; many are living sacred places, so visit them respectfully and follow the posted rules. Writing-on-Stone, Alberta, Canada, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Alberta, Canada, Bighorn Medicine Wheel, Wyoming, Peterborough Petroglyphs, Ontario, Canada and more Read this collection → 10 stops American Civil War Where the ground decided the fight. Gettysburg, Antietam, Vicksburg and other fields as terrain models for study and for wargaming. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Antietam, Maryland, Vicksburg, Mississippi, Shiloh, Tennessee and more Read this collection →