Upon seeing the entry for Marie-Antoinette’s private theater, I felt an urge to proclaim the Amargosa Opera House as Death Valley's "Mona Lisa". I was lucky enough to get a private tour and it was like stepping into one of the world's greatest works of art in the most bizarre of locations. The pictures don't do it justice but https://lenspire.zeiss.com/photo/en/article/mario-basner-cap...

Ah, Restoration Hardware. I've always thought the jwz quote applies perfectly to them: if I have a home furnishing problem, and I go to Restoration Hardware, now I have two problems. It's not enough to have their stores full of stuff I don't want, they've also got to turn them in to labyrinths too.

The Mob Museum was great though.

I thought I saw "woman with a polecat" in the SF legion of honour gallery. Maybe it was on tour. (This is at least a decade ago and possibly more)

What is the Mona Lisa of Hacker News?

Well, in Florence there actually is a copy of the original Mona Lisa. It's just that nobody knows about it. It's in the first room of stibbert museum. I almost missed it

Every culture has that one thing outsiders reduce to a joke or a meme. Rarely bothers to ask why it matters to the people it actually belongs to.

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