I mean, Meramec Caverns already gets lots of tourists—it's the largest cave formation in the world, for heaven's sake, and other people come to see it because it was where Jesse James hid, and because they have his hideout made up just like it was in the 1870's;
– The Lost Scrapbook p. 342

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The Tintin building (a.k.a. the Lombard building a.k.a. the Kuifje building) in Brussels, home of the Éditions du Lombard publishing house that published Tintin magazine (and the Dutch version Kuifje) from 1946-88.

On top of the building is an illuminated sign of Tintin and Snowy.

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—CBS flew us in on the following Saturday afternoon and put us up in the Ambassador Hotel—
– The Lost Scrapbook p. 287

Former location of the Ambassador Hotel in Washington D.C. I'm not sure when this particular story was supposed to take place, but the Ambassador was torn down in 1979.

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—in fact, yo's[sic] truly is now a dweller in a rented house (and, if that doesn't sufficiently floor you, I will add that I actually only rent the upstairs) in the decidedly unbumptious burg of Emporia—yes, there—there where the postmen and the pharmacists still smile, where a kid pedaling a bike recently received a speeding ticket, and where time itself seems to have slept in—
– The Lost Scrapbook p. 283

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You can find a bust of Belgian comics writer and artist Hergé on the corner of a street named in his honor in the French city Angoulême.

Hergé, who died in 1983, is best known for his comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. Steven Spielberg made a 3D Tintin movie in 2011, but I don't know anyone who saw it.

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