Brilliantly Beautiful Buildings
This building in the United Arab Emirates is the tallest building in the world and was build in only 6 years.
Burj Khalifa
This actor's career has been more than just alright, alright, alright. In 2014, he won the Oscar for Best Actor for Dallas Buyers' Club
Matthew McConaughey
No matter which one you fly to, a triangular steel tower will be waiting for you.
Paris
This classic (but widely disliked) Halloween candy was originally named "chicken feed"
Candy Corn
This big cat is the namesake for three SEC teams
Tiger
This house was the only one that the Big Bad Wolf could not huff and puff and blow down.
Brick house
This is NOT the sheriff from Toy Story! This shiny star of Texan actors was in No Country for Old Men and a handful of Hunger Games movies.
Woody Harrelson
Getting these two confused is no problem, the only difference is that the one across the border is "Nuevo"
Laredo
This Massachusetts town became famous for a witch hunt in the late 1600s
Salem
This cloudy, red fall drink (and New England classic!) is made by grinding and pressing apples
Cider
This UT-owned art museum led the Dean of Architecture to resign due to the Board of Regents' mishandling of the building's design
Blanton Museum of Art
This director is most famous for The Grand Budapest Hotel and Fantastic Mr. Fox. He has 7 movies with Owen Wilson, another Texas Ex.
Wes Anderson
You should be able to tell these apart, since the one in Scotland has an "H" at the end. Choose wisely, since tacos are better than whatever they eat there.
Edinburg(h)
This Tim Burton movie is often the subject of debates about which holiday it belongs to
The Nightmare Before Christmas
This 2000 neo-soul masterpiece album by D'Angelo shares a name with a donut store on 6th street
Voodoo
You may see someone taking their senior photos in front of the signature green door of this architecture library on campus.
Battle Hall
Bert Beveridge is (ironically) the founder of this Austin-based beverage company
Tito's
Confusing these two places is the difference between seeing the Acropolis and Parthenon and eating at Applebee's or Popeye's
Athens
This Michael Jackson album is the best-selling album of all time (70 million units). The title track's video features Jackson as a zombie and is a classic Halloween song.
Thriller
This Minnesotan legend was the first artist to simultaneously hold the number one song, album, and movie in the summer of 1984
Prince
This Parisian prison was stormed in 1789, marking the beginning of the French Revolution
The Bastille
Don't get on this Longhorn and NBA legend's bad side, or he may criticize you on one of his Twitter burner accounts.
Kevin Durant
Be careful which one you go to, because oil may quickly become turmoil
Odessa
This former comedian partner of Keegan-Michael Key has become a director of three horror movies: Get Out, Us, and Nope
Jordan Peele
This 1989 Spike Lee movie focuses on what the morally correct option is and takes place on the hottest day of the year in Bed-Stuy, New York
Do the Right Thing