Maybe recognizable for other reasons?
ETA Damn ninjas!
Pizzaland in North Arlington, New Jersey apparently gets a lot of business from Sopranos fans (it was in the opening credits).
Portmierion, Wales. Also known as “The Village”:
Port Isaac, Cornwall. Also known as “Portwenn”:
I was thinking of the “Mrs. Doubtfire” house:
What’s this a reference to?
The store from a hit reality show on The History Channel; Pawn Stars
Thanks!
Oh sticking with music there is Salford Lads Club. Made famous by the Smiths (literally they get people traveling from all over the world to take their picture there):
Nobody heard of the Empire State Building before King Kong.
I used to live on a houseboat one pier over from Tom Hanks’ character’s houseboat in Sleepless in Seattle. Lots of people, including tour boats, came and had a look. Not sure if anyone cares anymore.
And lots of people visit Winslow, Arizona, because of a song.
The Chartwell Mansion in Bel Air, CA:
Benson, Arizona, too.
Tony Packo’s Cafe in Toledo, Ohio. It became famous when Jamie Farr mentioned it at least six times while playing Klinger on MASH. (Farr grew up in Toledo.)
Point Dume at the southern end of Zuma Beach. It’s just an outcropping of rock at the tide line like a thousand others in California, but if you can commit the outline of the rocks to memory, you will recognize it in almost any film or TV show from the Sixties with a beach scene.
The ubiquitous Vasquez Rocks, most memorable from the Star Trek episode “Arena”:
What’s the fanwank explanation for that shot? AFAIK, there are no cliffs near Liberty Island. And something as fragile as the SoL cant just get washed ashore, upright and intact. It doesn’t ruin the movie for me- the unconvincing ape makeup did that.
I’d guess the coastline of North America was reshaped in the war. Cobalt bombs can ruin your whole day…
The mutants proverbially “rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic” after WW3.
