19 Famous Places You Picture Wrong: Side By Side

Whether it's from movies or the media, we've all seen some just awesome places that we want to go visit. Unfortunately, it turns out our current reality can lend to some pretty depressing discoveries.

Like seeing those awesome places, minus all the magic that made them so alluring in the first place. We asked our readers to give us an update on some famous locations, and we gave money to the winning submission.

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Entry by Scott Laffey

CIRILL Yawtrorne STOP Hawthorne Grill was the setting for the robbery scene that began and concluded Pulp Fiction. You're more likely to get a bumper

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Entry by Scott Laffey

CRACKEDCO Batifole Pestaurant oourmand 410402 5960 Le Batifole Restaurant in Toronto, Ontario. Bavking CHOP SVEY A PALACE CO CO TANN OPEN BIIG s No lo

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Entry by Kevin King

CRACKED.COM CAR Wran nT HAND WASH Benitos Benito's Taco Shop in Los Angeles, which Was featured in the beginning of The Big Lebowski. has since been

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Entry by Sagar Parikh

The amazing pyramids of Teotihuacan, Mexico are now haunted by Walmart only a mile away.

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Entry by ErasmusPezdun

CRACKEDCON The Battle of Stalingrad is often considered the most brutal battle of WWII. Within the six months: of the battle, 80% of the builldings we

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Entry by thenascarguy

604 H. St NW. Washington, DC Mary Surratt Boarding House 1864: Perfect for planning 2015: Perfect for Lincoln's Assassination cheap Chinese food ckt t

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Entry by Scott Laffey

The Oviatt Library and Sierra Quad at California State University, northridge served as the Sitar Fleet Academy campus in 2009'5 STAR TREK. BeFore you

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OR.ANGE BOWL From 1937 to 2008 it was the Orange Bowi It looked like this in 2009 Now it's Marlins Park, opened in 2012 CRACKED COM

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Sallah, Henry Sr. and Indy in front of the hidden temple of the Grail in the Canyon of the Crescent Moon. A bunch of tourists in front of Al Khazneh i

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-B4an >r. Beirut's high-rise Holiday Inn opened in 1973 - just two years before Lebanon descended into civil war. Some of the heaviest fighting took p

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Many rivers to cross? The mighty River Jordan isn't much to sing about these days. Surrounding countries have diverted 96%0 of the flow - compared to

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Entry by Chan Teik Onn

DIXIE SQUARE MALL WAS A FAMOUS LANDMARK IN CHICAGO. WHICH WAS FEATURED IN THE ICONIC CHASE SCENE IN 'THE BLUES BROTHERS' (1980). ALL THAT REMAINS ARE

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Entry by Sagar Parikh

The Temple of Baal-shamin was built nearly 000 years ago in Palmyra, Syria: It has been an important historical, cultural and archaeological site unti

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Entry by Scott Laffey

CRACKEDO COM 1969's Woodstock Festival at Max Yasgur's Farm in Bethel, NY O The site still hosts performances today as the Bethel Woods Center for the

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Entry by Scott Laffey

In its heyday, Detroit's Pontiac Silverdome was home to the Lions and Pistons and even hosted WWF'S Wrestlemania III. After losing both teams to new v

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Entry by Scott Laffey

Iconic movie locations are like a box of chocolates. Chippewa a Square Sometimes, they just get kind of gross after a while. CRACKED COM

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Entry by kazzle

legendary NYC punk CU'! 73-'06 GB 315 john varvatos 35 Bowery J HING bed's CRACKEDOON a hipster enclave M

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Entry by gicusudoru

CRACKED.COM Frohliche Eiszeit This is the Zeppelintribune in Nurnberg, Germany. Built for Nazi rallies in the '30s, it hosted all kinds of events incl

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Entry by Scott Laffey

E.M. Stuart proposed the Hollywood Walk Of Fame in 1953 to maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamour and excitement in the four corn