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* ''{{Series/Tracker}}'' did this; Cole said visitors from Migar [[spoiler:(probably Cirronians, since they were trying to hide the DoomsdayDevice from the Vardians)]] built the Great Pyramids and Stonehenge.

* ''Film/MenInBlack'':
** The observatory towers in New York's Flushing Meadow Park are really moored flying saucers.
** The second film in the series shows that the Statue of Liberty conceals a giant [[LaserGuidedAmnesia neuralizer]] device.

** The [[Film/{{Transformers|2007}} first film]] reveals that Hoover Dam was actually a Sector 7 research facility that stored a lot of their finds, including the Allspark and Megatron.

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'':
** The first film reveals that Hoover Dam was actually a Sector 7 research facility that stored a lot of their finds, including the Allspark and Megatron.
** In the second film, the Great Pyramid was built to hide the Sun Harvester which a corrupt Prime had brought to Earth.
** While not a landmark, the Apollo Program was designed primarily to investigate the alien ship that crashed on the other side of the Moon during the Kennedy administration.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' set in the past, it is revealed that all the moai statues on Easter Island are busts of Lord Uglyface.

-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]]

--->'''Eight:''' I can only teleport where there's another one of these big [[{{Unobtainium}} Loralite]] rocks around... to UsefulNotes/{{Peru}}, to [[EenieMeenieMinyMoai Easter Island]], to Stonehenge, the Gulf of Aden near Somalia... and I've ended up in the desert in New Mexico.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' set in the past, it is revealed that all the [[EenieMeenieMinyMoai moai]] statues on Easter Island are busts of Lord Uglyface.

SuperTrope to EenieMeenieMinyMoai and PyramidPower[[note]]And AncientAstronauts, AncientConspiracy, {{Area 51}}, {{Atlantis}}, BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy, ETGaveUsWifi, HollowWorld, JuliusBeethovenDaVinci, Myth/PaulBunyan, RoswellThatEndsWell, RushmoreRefacement, and WeaponizedLandmark. SisterTrope to AllMythsAreTrue, AllTheoriesAreTrue, AlternateHistory, ElaborateUndergroundBase, GovernmentConspiracy, HistoricalInJoke, and LandmarkOfLore.[[/note]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' 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.

** In ''Asterix in Spain'' Unhygenix is named responsible for Stonehenge (the original French version name-dropped Carnac instead).

[[caption-width-right:350:And you thought they only built the ''{{pyramid|Power}}s!'' (Artwork by Chris Foss)]]

[[caption-width-right:350:And you thought they only built the ''{{pyramid|Power}}s!'']]

** The second film in the series shows that the Statue of Liberty was constructed to conceal a giant [[LaserGuidedAmnesia neuralizer]] device.

** The Pyramids and Dulce Base, New Mexico [[spoiler: also hide the spaceships]].

* Parodying ''Film/NationalTreasure'', ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' reveals that the Lincoln Memorial was built to conceal the headquarters of the [[strike: Illuminati]] Illumi''nutty'', a peanut-based conspiracy surrounding George Washington Carver's [[spoiler: total lack of responsibility for the]] invention of peanut butter.

* In Creator/KurtVonnegut's ''Literature/TheSirensOfTitan'' various Earthly achievements are actually the result of [[MindManipulation psychic projection]] from the planet Tralfamadore; Salo, a stranded Tralfamadorian on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, watched these through his telescope, decoding human monuments like the Pyramids and the Great Wall of China as messages in his own language, like, "A replacement part is on the way."

* Promos for ''WesternAnimation/IceAge4ContinentalDrift'' 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 [[{{Atlantis}} Scratlantis]].

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visoki_De%C4%8Dani Visoki Decani]], a 14th century Serbian monastery, contains an icon of the Crucifixion with what looks like [[http://www.srbinside.rs/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/freskevi.jpg two UFOs]]. Notable alien conspiracy theorists, like Erich von Däniken, have for decades considered this to be an evidence of UFO presence in medieval history. This "theory" was, of course, dismissed by the priests, who offered a more Biblical explanation of the painting.

* The ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' 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 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(Mars)#%22Face_on_Mars%22 "Face on Mars"]].

* In ''Stonehenge Apocalypse'', Stonehenge, the Great Pyramids, and masses of other landmarks turn out to be hiding vital catalysts for the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt End of the World]]. All the [[SignsOfTheEndTimes 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.