The Earth Revealed Globe at the Chicago Museum Of Science And Industry. It’s a giant carbon fiber sphere that they project the earth onto from several different projectors and cycle through a whole series of things such as the evolution of earth, tectonic activity, global climate change activities, etc.

It is suspended on very thin cables so that the impression is that this every active globe floats in mid-air, very much like a Star Wars hologram. They also pull in current atmospheric data and feed that into the system so that what you see when it shows the cloud cover is basically real-time.

If you are in Chicago, this alone is worth the price of admission to the fantastic Chicago Museum Of Science And Industry.