The "private joke" was soon noticed and "developed a life of its own." Soon more creatures began popping up in background paintings, and like an exhibit on intellectual property theft, a little Millennium Falcon showed up:

Denver Museum of Nature & Science

There's even a teeny-tiny Yoda, presumably sitting atop an unseen teeny-tiny Frank Oz:

Denver Museum of Nature & Science"Inviting a lawsuit, I am."

And while you're enjoying Where's Waldo-ing random Star Wars characters, you might accidentally learn something about nature and/or science. Who knows!

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How did the Myers house end up here? Since teleportation hasn't been introduced to the Halloween-verse (yet), this is a replica. The house was made by Kenny Caperton, who was just looking to build a new house for himself and his wife to live in. But since he was a big horror fan, instead of merely building a boring old house that no fictional characters had been slaughtered in, he recreated the Myers house, complete with "claustrophobic" hallways. Though he updated it a little, seeing as the original house didn't have a kitchen or even bathrooms -- which in retrospect would probably turn the best of us into a knife-wielding maniac.

You can visit the house by appointment, or attend one of the many screenings or parties hosted there. You could even come dressed as Michael Myers, but do so at the risk of being kicked in the face by a dude dressed as Busta Rhymes.

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Part of the preserve's effort to "focus on children" included adding a replica of Marvel's beloved tree-man (presumably they're including comic loving man-children in their focus). And to remind us that Groot was horribly killed and replaced by a younger, more toy-worthy incarnation, they also have a Baby Groot.

Since the list of famous anthropomorphic trees runs a little short, the only other sculptures are Ents from The Lord Of The Rings, guardians of the forest (and hopefully protectors against Marvel's powerful attorneys).

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The Jacobite takes passengers on a scenic journey, most notably crossing the Glenfinnan Viaduct, which appeared multiple times on the Hogwarts Express route in the movies.

96Tommy/flickrWhile scenic, that bridge seems a little more like a death trap when you don't have the option to bail out on a flying broom.

Because of its connection to the beloved / increasingly frustrating franchise, the train offers special private compartments for fans, not unlike the kind used by Harry and pals. They also come with a special Potter-themed menu which includes chocolate frogs and Every Flavor beans. Thankfully, they stopped short of having the porter don a flowing black cloak and pretend to suck the souls out of terrified guests.

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For example, head down to Mexico, and you'll find a statue of Homer in a nondescript park. The statue was erected in honor of Homer's Mexican voiceover artist, and likely wasn't cleared by Fox -- hence why he seems to have gained 50 pounds and discovered the wonders of abusing Ambien.

In New York, you can find a bust of Bartman that was actually sculpted by the voice of Bart herself, Nancy Cartwright. It rests outside the headquarters of Fox News, which is odd, since Bart clearly hates the Republican Party.

FoxShouldn't this be Kent Brockman, anyway?

All the way in Springfield, New Zealand, you can find a giant Simpsons donut originally gifted to the town as a promotion for The Simpsons Movie.

Mattinbgn/Wikimedia CommonsMmmmm ... fiberglass.

And bizarrely, this public sculpture by artist Brett Murray in South Africa features multiple versions of Bart's head protruding from all over its body, like a rash you'd get from eating too many Butterfingers.

Brett Murray"Don't have an outbreak, man."

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And while everybody was just making stuff up, a local bar decided that Kirk would eventually be conceived there -- presumably because in Earth's future Utopian society, local taverns are super chill about patrons fucking each other on the floor. There's even a plaque commemorating the exact spot, which was originally placed underneath the pool table.

Murphy's Bar & GrillWe want to go only because you know that any bar with 23 decades of staying power is gonna serve a good lunch.

The town even erected a statue of Captain Kirk in a local park -- which, perhaps not surprisingly, enraged Kirk himself, William Shatner.

Sam McIntosh/KCII-Radio, Washington, IowaIt has all the smoldering heat of the original Kirk (especially after being in direct sunlight for a few hours).

And if Shatner's pissed about a classy bronze statue, wait until he finds out that his iconic character owes his existence to the romantic ambiance of a beer-stained billiards table. Though to be fair, Chris Pine has absolutely done that shit at least once.

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