OK this is now a fork. Favorite indoor place that's fake outdoors at night *besides* Pirates of the Caribbean/Blue Bayou restaurant which is obviously the apex.
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House on the Rock, clearly. ‘Fake outdoors at night’ starts about ⅓ the way down: www.roadtripsandrollercoasters.com/house-on-the...
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The Chateau Theatre in Rochester, MN when it was a Barnes & Noble in the 90s.
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Mexico in Epcot is also pretty high up there, but either way what I really want are public tours of that wild Las Vegas bunker house.
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They really missed by not painting trompe-l'oeil fronds on the ceiling.
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Feels like a Vegas thing, I know the Venetian but maybe a few others have that "supporting pole disguised as a tree" right into an endless fake sky look.
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oh yesssss
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Hmm. They aren't really my thing. I have fond memories of MPM from childhood, but even then I was mostly a dinosaur kid. Here's the last one I was in (only some regions are "outdoors"): meowwolf.com/visit/denver
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Do planetariums count? There are many, and they are nearly always pretty.
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Similar grey area: Nocturnal mammal habitats in zoos. The sandcats at Brookfield (Chicago) come to mind as a good example of the type.
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