I just wanted to dedicate a thread to the one and only Pride Rock. No other Disney movie has a landmark that has quite such awesome power and memory-value. Pride Rock has so many meanings and symbolism in the films, and it can mean something different to each character. I'd like to go through some of these meanings, and if you have any others, or your own reactions to the landmark go ahead and share them =)
In the Circle of Life, and the beginning of TLK Pride Rock is basically the physical representation of everything that is good in the pridelander's rule, and a focal point for all the positive energy.
Then of course, Scar takes over, and Pride Rock takes a dead and evil look. It's like a shipwreck, something beautiful that's been spoiled.
In Simba's Pride there are new and interesting meanings there too. Kiara sees Pride Rock as something she's trying desperately to live up to, and a source of pressure and strain. It's a symbol of tyranny and power gone out of control when Simba sends Kovu away, and it even acts as a prison that Kiara has to escape from!
In closing, if I could visit one place from a disney film, it would be Pride Rock. I wish a landmark like that really existed...