Hey, DUers! Your fabulous Friday Afternoon Challenge today: Notorious!
Identify the "notorious" places below. All have been settings for works of literature and/or films, both true and fictional.
and please honor the “no cheat" rule, folks...
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But not too far from the truth! 
Either way, this is shaping up as the easiest Friday challenge in history! 
If #2 is not the Reichstag, is it the Hermitage in Leningrad?
Is #5 Attica Prison in upstate New York?
And #5 wild guess is it the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem?
And with that, I got nothin'
And with that I've got nada...
Impressive!
I know it was a typo. At least I can contribute some humor to the thread since I have no idea LOL!
but I always peak in at them because I learn a bunch of things 
nun -- she looks like the nuns from Italy that ran my grade school. I think the Order was "Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus". They came over from Italy with Mother Cabrini and opened orphanages across the country. She browbeat wealthy Catholics in the different locales to give GENEROUSLY. One of the nuns told my mother she'd be embarrassed when Mother Cabrini would drag them along to go "begging". In Seattle, anyway, they did very well acres and acres of Lake Washington waterfront property and an orphanage so elegant that when I was in Italy I'd keep going to places thinking "why does this look so familiar?" It was because it reminded me of Sacred Heart Villa! Terazzo tile floors, grottos around the property, just beautiful -- except it was brick. 
Here's the cozy little chapel -- tricked out in recent years for a wedding
So the pic in your offering might be an old one of of good 'ol Mother Consolotta!
and thanks, but your hint was wasted on me. 
Where Butch and Sundance were reportedly shot..
...maybe the Notre Dame?
wall paper job:
After long and fruitless waiting I have determined to write to you myself, as much for your sake as for mine, as I would not like to think that I had passed through two long years of imprisonment without ever having received a single line from you, or any news or message even, except such as gave me pain ...
...on the other hand, it's a lot of fun, and I look forward to it every Friday.
Looking at it, I figured it was either a prison or a factory with the wall. Because of the other pictures and the OP title, I decided it was a prison instead of a factory.
The red brick dated it to mid- to late-Victorian times, although not necessarily England, I thought; a lot of countries on the Continent built with red brick as well.
The ruin at the left side made me think of England, although possibly Germany as well, the way both countries like to leave historic ruins out where people can see them.
So then I've gotten it down to a prison in England. Here I was stumped for a bit. There are lots of famous prisons in England, so I googled a lot of them (I know you say no googling, but there comes a point where I have to check my work) by name -- the Maze, Newgate, Pentonville -- to see if they looked like this photo. Nope. Then I started wondering if this might be in Northern Ireland or Scotland, and checked some of those as well.
Then you gave the hint about "literary history," which is what broke it for me. In college, I took several courses in British literature (when I thought I would be an English major) but none, shockingly, in Victorian literature, so that is spotty for me. I googled (sorry, again) "prison literature" and bam, there it was: "Oscar Wilde wrote the philosophical essay 'De Profundis' while in Reading Gaol on charges of 'unnatural acts' and 'gross indecency' with other men."
I do know Oscar Wilde, but always think of him as Edwardian, which is obviously wrong, and so I felt silly when I looked back and couldn't come up with a Victorian writer who might be in prison. It seemed very obvious when I figured it out. BUT I had a great time on the trail. Thanks again for a lot of fun.
6 was a Nuremburg rally
on edit.... got mixed up on my numbers 
The literary reference is to Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, his letter written (but never sent) to Lord Alfred Douglas during Wilde's imprisonment on indecency charges.
Credit for the solve goes to Brickbat on this one. 
These last two are killing me though.
Today is my lucky day.
I guessed... you actually know stuff You had the scenario mostly right.... queen awaiting beheading.
during the overthrowing of Allende?
The sign with the E and a slash through it made me think it was in a Spanish-speaking country. ("Parking" in Spanish is something like estacionamiento, so the E with a slash means "no parking."
Also, you said that most DUers were alive at the time, which put it in the 60s or 70s, but I really had no idea what this was, which probably ruled out the 80s or the 90s.
I did a little poking around in the history of Spain and I couldn't find an event that seemed right. Also, somehow it looked more like South America than Central America, which ruled out a lot of civil unrest.
You also said that it was an event that a lot of progressives were very upset by, and the big thing that came to my mind was the ouster of Allende.
I looked it up, and sure enough that was it.
So there was some logic and some guesswork.
I'm so happy to have gotten one right!
I honestly had forgotten that Allende committed suicide in that building til I read about it the NYT Magazine a few weeks ago. That's how I got the idea for a "Notorious" thread.
Also, I have a lot of time on my hands as a retiree
#2 is indeed la moneda during the overthrow of Allende (perhaps taken while he was committing suicide, alas).
#4 is Marie Antoinette in the Palais de Justice and #5 is Reading Gaol.
Hope you all had fun with this!
No Challenge next week as I will be out of town. But I'll be back in 2 weeks with another puzzler that I hope you will find "interesting."
Till then, folks, and thanks for playing!
We'll miss you next week, but I guess we could all just sit around and waterboard each other until your return...
Have a good trip and hurry back, CTyankee!
VERY GOOD!
Thanks!
I usually just lurk in this weekly fun. I rarely have a clue, but the pics, guesses, hints and info provided keep me coming back week after week!
Safe travels!
Also, when I do the art, I love the conversations we have. People share their experiences with a work of art I am showing and I just love reading them! Plus, I learn a lot too.
And, DUers are amazingly smart...
