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Alternate Landmark History
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Works of fiction will often disguise Scenery Porn by providing suitable (if probably false) explanations for "mysterious" landmarks, or related phenomena. The work will tell its audience for what reason the landmark was built, true or not, making the obvious ones more interesting. It's most commonly done with Stonehenge and the Pyramids and it likely involves a Government Conspiracy of some kind. Often, the landmark is a facade for something concealed inside or beneath it — sometimes becoming an Elaborate Underground Base. Most things that offer an explanation for Area 51 as part of their plot count — but not if they just show us what's in there. It generally follows the Rule of Cool. Super-Trope to Pyramid Power, Ancient Astronauts, Ancient Conspiracy, Area 51, Atlantis, Beethoven Was an Alien Spy, ET Gave Us Wifi, Hollow World, Julius Beethoven da Vinci, Paul Bunyan, Roswell That Ends Well, Rushmore Refacement, and Weaponized Landmark. Sister Trope to All Myths Are True, All Theories Are True, Alternate History, Elaborate Underground Base, Government Conspiracy, Historical In-Joke, and Landmark of Lore. Will frequently overlap with Ancient Astronauts and Beethoven Was an Alien Spy, and very rarely doesn't create Alternate History, being a type of Historical In-Joke. May double-up as a Weaponized Landmark. Compare ET Gave Us Wifi. Contrast Landmarking the Hidden Base and the Eiffel Tower Effect. |
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In 2012, the Ganges Dam in China was revealed to be hiding the construction of the Arks. | |
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. toys with this trope and Alternate History. Sure, the experiments that lead to the Zone being what it is were merely the result of the Chernobyl Zone of Exclusion being a good place to hide secret experiments, but the experiments would never have been possible were the Russian Woodpecker not secretly a super-sized Mind-Control Device. | |
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In one episode of The Simpsons set in the past, it is revealed that all the moai statues on Easter Island are busts of Lord Uglyface. | |
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In Transformers: Dark of the Moon, while not a landmark, the Apollo Program was designed primarily to investigate the alien ship that had crashed on the other side of the Moon during the Kennedy Administration. | |
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In the Looney Tunes short Louvre Come Back to Me, Pepe Le Pew (the skunk) visits the Parisian museum, and his trademark odour alters many famous works of art. He causes the arms to fall off of Venus de Milo. | |
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According to the novelization of "Rose", the Eiffel Tower is actually a spaceship that the Doctor prevented from taking off... but is still functional. | |
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Novel Eye of Heaven tells us that the Moai were put there by Ancient Astronauts and are alien computers that run a Transmat network. | |
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In The Day the World Broke, a previous Chief Engineer of the machine that runs the world built the Pyramids to cover up some unsightly protruding bolts. | |
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America Unearthed uses this premise for a lot of the theories propagated by Scott Wolter. | |
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In Hop the Moai statues on Easter Island (where all the bunnies are from) are the secret entrances to the Easter Bunny's whole operation. | |
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In Wizards of Waverly Place, Rosie tells Justin that the Hollywood sign is there as a doorway to the Angel world (as are many other angel-related places on Earth, such as the Angel of the North). | |
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In the Stargate-verse, the pyramids of Giza were originally landing pads for Goa'uld motherships. | |
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The Umbrella Academy reveals that the Eiffel Tower is a deadly robot built by... zombie Gustave Eiffel. | |
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In Cydonia: Mars - The First Manned Mission, the face-shaped Cydonia Mensae structure on Mars turns out to house a building and several outlying ones, constructed by another alien species that came to aid the Martian people in achieving enlightenment and understanding the Martian caste system. | |
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In the Harry Potter franchise we are to assume, as Hogwarts is older than King's Cross Station, that the latter was built to hide the otherwise rather conspicuous method of transportation to and from the former. | |
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Played with in an episode of Jackie Chan Adventures. A group of evil druids thinks that Stonehenge is a Fantastic Nuke and casts spells on it to try and blow up London. Despite the Chans' interference the druids manage to cast their spell and Stonehenge fires a beam into the sky, but nothing happens to London and the British Army arrests the druids. After everybody leaves, a Flying Saucer touches down in Stonehenge. | |
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Stargate SG-1: The aforementioned "pyramids = Goa'uld landing pads" thing. Glastonbury Tor, a hill used heavily by the ancient Celts including for fortifications, has an Ancient installation beneath it. Stargate Command is underneath NORAD at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station. In real life, the franchise had such a close relationship with the Air Force that the real Cheyenne Mountain has a door labeled Stargate Command. (It's a broom closet.) |
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The Phineas and Ferb episode "Unfair Science Fair Redux (Another Story)" ends with Doofenshmirtz accidentally turning on his very first Inator and firing it into Mars, destroying a huge carving of Candace's face on the rock done by the Martians prior, and turning it into the infamous "Face on Mars". | |
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In Atlantis: The Lost Tales it's revealed that the Stonehenge was built to hide a terrible power and the Moai statues were made to appease a non-existent god. | |
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In The Secret of Platform 13 King's Cross Stationnote the book predates Harry Potter, honest was built over a Gump, a portal to a magical place called The Island. | |
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The Caerns: Places of Power source book for Werewolf: The Apocalypse provides an alternate history for the Trinity test site in Alamagordo, New Mexico. The Trinity test spawned Grandmaw, a colossal thunderwyrm who serves as one of the holiest caerns of the Black Spiral Dancers. The impact crater receives no human visitors, and the Black Spirals use the crater as an amphitheater for large gatherings. The McDonald ranch house, where the atomic bomb's core was assembled, is now the home of White-Eyes-ikthya, a Trinity Hive elder. In real life, the Trinity testing site and the McDonald ranch house are a historical landmarks that receive thousands of visitors each year. Trinity's ground zero crater was bulldozed in 1952. | |
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At the end of The Rocketeer, Neville Sinclair steals the rocket pack but ends up crashing into the "HOLLYWOODLAND" sign and exploding, converting it into the now-famous "HOLLYWOOD" sign. | |
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In The Real Ghostbusters, the Eiffel Tower turns out to be a Steampunk ghost trap built by...not-a-zombie-at-all Gustave Eiffel. | |
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In Animorphs one of the Pyramids of Giza was built over the Time Matrix. | |
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In Starman, it's implied, though not explicitly stated, that the huge meteor crater in Arizona was built as some kind of alien spaceship landing site. | |
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In Timelapse, the Moai statues, Egyptian and Mayan pyramids, and Anasazi cliff dwellings were constructed by the people of Atlantis using energy beam tools, and the people of these civilizations were given special Gene Pods that infused their children with Atlantean DNA, which allowed these civilizations to prosper while others didn't. Though not all of them used these gifts peacefully, and the Atlanteans withdrew their gifts upon seeing the Maoi people slaughtering themselves. | |
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Wolverine (2014): In the Marvel Universe, the Japanese island of Itsukushima (aka Miyajima) isn't just a major tourist attraction and the location of the Itsukushima Shrine. It's also the location of the secret Temple of Death on Holiday, an Eldritch Location which is simultaneously on the island and outside the physical universe. | |
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In The DCU, the pyramids are sometimes explained as creations of Hawkman's race, the Thanagarians. | |
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Promos for Ice Age: Continental Drift showed Scrat causing the continental drift, shifting Pangaea into the present landmasses. He also accidentally created the Sphinx (in his image) and caused the sinking of Scratlantis. | |
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In The Santa Clause the pole at the North Pole is a keypad stand, you need the correct code in order for the Sleigh to enter Santa HQ. | |
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In the Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: Cosmic Destruction video game the Great Wall of China was built to hide part of an ancient Galvan artifact, the Potis Altaire. | |
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The videogame The Secret World centres itself around the concept that EVERY real world myth, urban legend, and conspiracy theory (surrounding many landmarks' creation) is, in fact, true and claims to have entire missions devoted to each of them. The tagline is "everything is true". | |
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Outlaw Star: The beginning of the 21st episode, Grave of the Dragon (00:16-01:19), explains that Stonehenge is only one of many mysterious ruins, found on other worlds, that are believed to have been left by the same advanced alien civilization. | |
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Transformers Film Series: Transformers (2007) reveals that Hoover Dam was actually a Sector 7 research facility that stored a lot of their finds, including the Allspark and Megatron. In Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen, the Great Pyramid of Giza was built to hide the Sun Harvester which a corrupt Prime had brought to Earth. In Transformers: Dark of the Moon, while not a landmark, the Apollo Program was designed primarily to investigate the alien ship that had crashed on the other side of the Moon during the Kennedy Administration. |
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In From Dusk Till Dawn, the ancient Mayan/Aztec temples were implied to be places where the blood-lust of vampires was appeased. | |
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In Tales of the Questor, the stonehenges (plural) were built by the Rac Cona Daimh as basically glorified incinerators. Since granite is lux-proof, a granite henge can be used to absorb the magical blast when destroying dangerous or unstable magical items. They consider this an elegant way of disposing of their thaumaturgical waste, except for the circles' tendency to attract druids. | |
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Men in Black II shows that the Statue of Liberty conceals a giant neuralizer device. | |
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Godzilla vs. Megalon has it that the Easter Island moai were created three million years ago by the people of Lemuria. | |
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In The Prince of Egypt, Ramses and Moses race their chariots through the monument construction grounds, causing a worker to hack off the Sphinx's nose. | |
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Doctor Who has been using this trope for so long, it's getting hard for the writers to come up with historical landmarks that haven't been given an Alternate Landmark History. | |
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Men in Black: The observatory towers in New York's Flushing Meadow Park are really moored flying saucers. | |
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Asterix: In Asterix in Spain Unhygenix is named responsible for Carnac (the English version name-dropped Stonehenge instead). In Asterix and Cleopatra Obelix was responsible for the missing nose of The Sphinx: he tried to climb the statue and kicked it loose. |
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In Stonehenge Apocalypse, Stonehenge, the Great Pyramids, and masses of other landmarks turn out to be hiding vital catalysts for the End of the World. All the pyramids-unravelling-and-becoming-volcanoes should be fair warning, however the film fails to mention by who or what, or why, any of it was built. | |
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Lorien Legacies: The following discussion happens (book two): Then, as a Call-Back to that, in book 3 Number Eight tells us that, yes, Roswell, New Mexico is an ancient Loric site. Loric being "of Lorien", not "of Lore". And, this, explaining how the Ancients weren't quite as amazing as currently perceived: "how we helped the Egyptians build the pyramids, how the Greek gods were actually Loric, how we taught the Romans military strategy, and so on." The Pyramids and Dulce Base, New Mexico also hide the spaceships. Area 51 is "a meaningless airplane hangar, give or take", explicitly a decoy set up so the aliens could conduct their extraterrestrial business elsewhere (Dulce, primarily) undisturbed by "all the UFO freaks". You know, exactly what the trope page says (down at the bottom). Stonehenge is an ancient graveyard for all the Loric that died fighting on Earth. The 7/7 bombings in London (if you don't know, think about them as Britain's 9/11) are implied to have been instead the fight between the Mogadorians and Conrad. So it got blamed on terrorists. Book one gives us: "Some of the greatest figures in Earth's history were actually the product of humans and the Loric, including Buddha, Aristotle, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein... Aphrodite, Apollo, Hermes, and Zeus were all real, and had one Loric parent." |
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Then, as a Call-Back to that, in book 3 Number Eight tells us that, yes, Roswell, New Mexico is an ancient Loric site. Loric being "of Lorien", not "of Lore". | |
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In Aladdin, Aladdin and Jasmine fly the magic carpet to Egypt and a shocked stonemason breaks the nose off the Sphinx. | |
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Animated film Rise of the Guardians explains the Aurora Borealis phenomenon as a communication method between Father Christmas, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and others. | |
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Transformers (2007) reveals that Hoover Dam was actually a Sector 7 research facility that stored a lot of their finds, including the Allspark and Megatron. | |
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For a given value of a landmark, in The Last Witch Hunter the Black Death is said to be a Mystical Plague created by film's Big Bad, the Witch Queen. | |
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Parodying National Treasure, American Dad! reveals that the Lincoln Memorial was built to conceal the headquarters of the Illuminati Illuminutty, a peanut-based conspiracy surrounding George Washington Carver's total lack of responsibility for the invention of peanut butter. | |
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The Bartimaeus Trilogy features an alternate London which is ruled by magicians. Many prominent British landmarks have been put to purposes specific for the use of magicians, such as the Tower of London serving as headquarters for both the police and security divisions of the magical government, as well as the nation's most secure prison. Westminster Abbey, meanwhile, has become exclusively a mortuary for the nation's most prominent deceased magicians. | |
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In Hellboy II: The Golden Army the Giant's Causeway in the British Isles is shown to be a secret entrance to the Land of Faerie. | |
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In Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen, the Great Pyramid of Giza was built to hide the Sun Harvester which a corrupt Prime had brought to Earth. | |
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In Merlin, Stonehenge was built as a portal to the land of the dead. | |
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Played for laughs in Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code, which reveals that Stonehenge is the remains of a fairy pizza place. The real building had to be moved belowground once humans began snooping around, but it's still a popular tourist destination for fairies. | |
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A gag in the Gravity Falls episode "Irrational Treasure" reveals that the faces on Mount Rushmore are actually gigantic presidential-faced robots, that will only be activated when America needs them the most. | |
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