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Why travel all the way to England to see Stonehenge when you can save a few bucks and admire it in Virginia, or Texas, or Missouri, or... you get the idea. Areas without famous natural wonders or man-made marvels have somehow reasoned over the years that if 6.9 million people visit the Eiffel Tower annually, wouldn't at least 6.9 pay to visit our fake version of it?
I'm from Nashville and have been to the Parthenon (and Centennial Park, where it is located) many times. It was originally built as a temporary structure for the Nashville centennial celebration. Nashville is known as the "Athens of the South". It was so popular that they rebuilt it as the permanent structure that is there today.
Not quite the same, but there's a place in Istanbul called "Miniatürk" which has scale models of architecturally significant buildings throughout Turkey and the former Ottoman Empire.
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