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* [[Tokyo Tower]] functions this way in many anime; one of the most famous is in the ''[[X (manga)|X 1999]]'' manga, TV series and movie.
* ''[[Death Note]]'' uses both the Eiffel Tower and the London Eye for Paris and London at one point.
* In one episode of ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'', Section 9 assists
** [[Rule of Cool]]: It's a shout-out to ''[[Wings of Desire]]''.
* During the Doma Arc of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'', when the Orichalcos Soldiers were attacking everywhere on Earth, the cities they were attacking were identified with a single famous landmark (e.g. the [[Britain Is Only London|Palace of Westminster]], the [[Big Applesauce|Empire State Building]], [[Land Down Under|Sydney Opera House]], [[Tokyo Tower]], [[Gay Paree|l'Arc de Triomphe]], etc., etc.)
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* ''[[Poltergeist: The Legacy]]'' often had stock footage of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay Bridge, and other San Francisco landmarks. There was also a scene in a bar in the Tenderloin (a famous [[San Francisco]] slum), with a crude mural of the Golden Gate, the Trans-America Pyramid, Coit Tower and a cable car.
* Virtually every episode of ''[[Charmed]]'' featured a montage of San Francisco aerial footage beneath the first-act credits, much like the ''CSI'' example below but even more extended. In later seasons, some of the main characters (with the ability to teleport at will) took to using the top of one of the Golden Gate Bridge's towers (or an approximation thereof on a Los Angeles soundstage) as a regular meeting place.
* ''[[CSI]]'' loves this. [[Vegas Montage|Vegas is shown in loving detail]] in nearly every episode. Expect to see tons of aerial shots of the Vegas strip at night. Especially of The Stratosphere.
* Spoofed on ''[[Joey]]'': Gina's appartment has a view of the Hollywood sign - if you lean back on the balcony. And then you only see the middle of it, so technically, it's a view of the OLLYWOO sign.
* ''[[Degrassi]]'''s rotation of [[Establishing Shot]]s include the CN Tower as well as several views of [[Toronto]] streetcars, a "De Grassi Street" sign and the exterior of the school itself.
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=== The Americas ===
==== Brazil ====
* Apparently, there's only one statue in the entire country: the Christ The Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.
==== Canada ====
* The aforementioned CN Tower is similar to the Washington Monument, but for different reasons. It's not that the buildings in [[Toronto]] are especially small, it's just the CN Tower ''really is that tall''.
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* In [[Taiwanese Series]], the Taipei 101 building in the country's capitol, is the tallest building on the island and tends to show up in the background of at least one episode.
* Thousands of Armenian paintings and photographs would suggest that Mt. Ararat is visible all over the country, when in fact it has to be a really clear day to be able to see it from its capital, Yerevan. And partly due to a long, sad history of horrible luck, Armenia's most iconic landmark isn't even in Armenia anymore but in Turkey.
* [[Tokyo]] is large enough that ''each ward'' has its own iconic landmarks. These include Shibuya's scramble crossing and ''109'' department store (both of which can be fit in the same shot) or NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building, the Akihabara strip, the gates to the Senso temple in Asakusa, the row of natural gas tanks in Nerima, the Kabukicho arch and Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Shinjuku, Sumida's Skytree, and of course Minato's Eiffel-lookalike [[Tokyo Tower]].
=== Europe ===
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