La Trobe Street is where you can catch the free City Circle Tram, a Melbourne icon and a great way to get a sense of the city.
The second or third largest hotel on earth, depending how you count, the MGM Grand is a true Las Vegas icon: the city's largest hotel, a major concert and sporting event venue, full of nightlife and entertainment options and celebrity chef restaurants, including arguably the nation's single best fine dining spot, the 3-Michelin starred, Forbes 5-Star, Joel Robuchon.
They are a San Francisco icon vital to the city's booming tourism industry.
Professing to be an architectural icon in a liveable city core, this giant structure, purported to be the largest wood structure in the world, is best described as a forest of mushrooms welded onto a flying waffle.
Jutting out of London's skyline in all its futuristic glory, the "Gherkin" building has managed in the last few years to embed itself in the city's psyche as an icon, an edifice that just looked as cool as a cucumber.
Founded by blogger Na'eem Adam, the first ever celebration took place in February 2013 and more than 30 restaurants featured the Quebecois icon on their menus as the city embarked on a culinary food tour to uncover the best.
Big Tex "was an icon we could look at in the midst of this city that has changed so much, but now it will be new and it will be different, " said Naomi Pevsner, a 54-year-old jewelry designer from Dallas.
Among its partners are Walgreens (WGA), Icon Parking, Central Parking, Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection, City of Miami Beach, and City of Norwalk, Connecticut, which owns or manages 6.5 million parking spaces.
There was the year mascara icon Tammy Faye Bakker and drag queen RuPaul walked arm in arm down Park City's Main Street (the odd couple were promoting "The Eyes of Tammy Faye, " a documentary about Bakker's life).
For instance, Shanghai city officials pressed the state-run company that owns the Peace Hotel, an Art Deco icon, to undertake a multimillion-dollar renovation.
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To some the Shard is a new icon for London - a demonstration of the energy, urgency and modernity of the great city.
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