Alex Crick Wanders the Globe for Snow Globes

spin an actual globe, and chances are you’ll land on a destination that Alex Crick has immortalized in a snow globe. His world-spanning collection of glass, water, ceramic, and sometimes plastic manifests in viking ships (Iceland), bald eagles (Alaska…and Denver), cherry blossoms (Japan), dolphins (Florida), and so many buildings.

It all got rolling in 2000. “I just started collecting them because I thought it would be fun,” Crick says. “Then it got to the point where we’re going to more places and picking up more snow globes, and friends brought me more snow globes, and it ended up, you know, I have a collection of

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