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* ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'': According to the film, 55 Central Park West, the New York City apartment building where Dana Barrett and Louis Tully live, was designed and constructed by Ivo Shandor some time around 1920 to attract supernatural turbulence, specifically Gozer, an ancient Sumerian destroyer deity.
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* Creator/ElizabethBear's ''Literature/ThePrometheanAge'' books use the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spike Golden Spike]] as the lynchpin of a mystical anti-faerie enchantment. Railroads and iron, dontcha know. They also feature one of the [[http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/library-lions lions in front of the New York City Public Library]] as a GeniusLoci.

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* Creator/ElizabethBear's ''Literature/ThePrometheanAge'' books use the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spike Golden Spike]] as the lynchpin linchpin of a mystical anti-faerie enchantment. Railroads and iron, dontcha know. They also feature one of the [[http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/library-lions lions in front of the New York City Public Library]] as a GeniusLoci.



** Any pyramid or obelisk, as well. It doesn't have to be ancient, or even Egyptian in origin. The Washington memorial will do.
* In ''Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld'', the ''Origin of Species'' is a major L-Space node. L-Space theory says that large amounts of books warp spacetime, but a single book that spawns an entire subject has the same "weight".

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** Any pyramid or obelisk, as well. It doesn't have to be ancient, or even Egyptian in origin. The Washington memorial Monument will do.
* In ''Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld'', the ''Origin of Species'' is a major L-Space node. L-Space theory says that large amounts numbers of books warp spacetime, but a single book that spawns an entire subject has the same "weight".
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* In part 7 of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio Golden Proportion]] has weird, almost magic powers. If you manage to make an ordinary steel ball to spin forming a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spiral Golden Spiral]] it will carry an immense power, which can be applied for enhancing your strength and resistance, [[HealingShiv healing]], [[MercyKill killing painlessly]], making paralytics walk again, and disintegrating an object by passing the endless rotation of the ball to its molecules and atoms to the point that the force of the rotation overrides the forces that make them form an object.

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* In part 7 of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', the ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun'': The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio Golden Proportion]] has weird, almost magic powers. If you manage to make an ordinary steel ball to spin forming a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spiral Golden Spiral]] it will carry an immense power, which can be applied for enhancing your strength and resistance, [[HealingShiv healing]], [[MercyKill killing painlessly]], making paralytics walk again, and disintegrating an object by passing the endless rotation of the ball to its molecules and atoms to the point that the force of the rotation overrides the forces that make them form an object.
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* The Hope Diamond.
* UsefulNotes/{{Tutankhamun}}'s tomb and its contents.

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* The Colt from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''.

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* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle The Giggle]]", [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stooky_Bill Stooky Bill]], the ventriloquist's dummy John Logie Baird used for his early television experiments, was provided by the Toymaker and left a "giggle" hidden in all TV broadcasts as part of a long term plan to unleash a HatePlague.

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* In ''WebVideo/FranceFive'', the Eiffel Tower is a shamanic totem that generates a barrier around the Earth, protecting the planet from a large-scale alien invasion.
* In ''WebVideo/Dimension20'''s Unsleeping City setting, various iconic elements of New York City are part of its magical otherworld--for example, the lions guarding the New York Public Library are alive, Yankee's Stadium is the entryway to the Hall of Heroes, and the Angel of Bethesda Fountain is a literal angel in physical form.


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* In ''WebVideo/FranceFive'', the Eiffel Tower is a shamanic totem that generates a barrier around the Earth, protecting the planet from a large-scale alien invasion.
* In ''WebVideo/Dimension20'''s Unsleeping City setting, various iconic elements of New York City are part of its magical otherworld--for example, the lions guarding the New York Public Library are alive, Yankee's Stadium is the entryway to the Hall of Heroes, and the Angel of Bethesda Fountain is a literal angel in physical form.
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