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- Hobbiton in Matamata, Waikato, New Zealand — The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Trilogies. The cozy town of Hobbiton, home to Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, may have been created specifically for The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films, but the storybook-like set remains.
- Al Khazneh in Petra, Jordan — "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" If you're a fan of the Indiana Jones film series (and let's be honest, who isn't?) , you may know this wonder of a structure as the mystical temple of the Holy Grail, which is carved into the side of a canyon.
- Mokule’ia Beach in Oahu, Hawaii — Lost. Dreaming of visiting the crash site of Oceanic flight 815? Head to Oahu's Mokule'ia Beach, which was used as not only the crash site, but also the location of the survivors' camp in the first season of the mega-popular series.
- Dubrovnik, Croatia — Game of Thrones. If you were to walk down the streets of coastal city Dubrovnik, Croatia, you'd immediately recognize the cobblestone roads and gothic architecture as King's Landing, aka the capital of the Seven Kingdoms in Game of Thrones.
Feb 10, 2019 · The United States is full of filming locations - both film and television. Check out over 100 filming locations you can see across the USA right here!
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Café des Deux Moulins as seen in Amélie
Where: 15 Rue Lepic, 75018 Paris, France Read more: Amélie Filming Locations in Paris, France The streets of Paris feature in hundreds of films so it’s apt we begin our journey of iconic movie locations around the world here. Amélie is a whimsical French comedy about the life of one timorous young woman and her observations of the city and people around her. She works at a café, Café des Deux Moulins, in Montmartreand today it looks just as ruby red and inviting as it did in the film 20 years...
Royal Palace of Caserta as seen in Angels and Demons
Where: Piazza Carlo di Borbone, 81100 Caserta CE, Italy Read more: Angels and Demons Filming Locations in Italy What happens when you’re filming a movie in Italy which rips into everything the Catholic church holds dear and 50% of it is set in Vatican City? You use the Royal Palace of Caserta near Naples as a stand-in, of course! And this is just what Angels and Demons and Mission: Impossible III (2006) did. Built during the mid-1700s, the Royal Palace of Caserta is a UNESCO World Heritage Si...
Odesa Steps as seen in Battleship Potemkin
Where: Odesa, Odesa Oblast, 65000 Ukraine This is a shooting location to be appreciated by the finer film fan. Sergei Eisenstein’s cinematic classic Battleship Potemkin used this harbourside staircase to backdrop his groundbreaking montage of a baby carriage propelling down the steps away from a horrified mother. So famous, Brazil (1985) and The Untouchables (1987) have both parodied this exact scene. Eastern Europe doesn’t get a lot of love from Hollywood, unfortunately. So, the Potemkin Ste...
Aït Benhaddou as seen in Gladiator
Where: Douar Ait Ben Haddou, Ait Ben Haddou 45000 Morocco Read more: Gladiator Filming Locations in Morocco, Malta & Elsewhere Can you actually believe a place like this exists on Earth?! Luckily it does because a lot of movies have utilised Aït Benhaddou in Morocco, a tiny fortified UNESCO World Heritage site town, as a movie location. Aside from Gladiator, The Mummy (1999), Alexander (2004), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010), and Game of Thrones have all s...
Masai Mara as seen in Out of Africa
Where: Ngiro-are Road, Kenya Perhaps the most difficult of all the iconic filming locations to travel to, but absolutely the most rewarding. The Meryl Streep and Robert Redford epic Out of Africa was shot on location in Kenya’s Masai Mara. Head there during the Great Migration between May and December and hopefully, you’ll find zebras, wildebeest, lions and leopards as well as the gorgeous landscape.
Sidi Idriss Hotel as seen in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Where: Matmatat-Al-Qadimal, Tunisia There are many hotels on this list of the most famous movie locations in the world. Partly because they’re one of the easiest filming locations to visit! You just book a room and boom, job done. But there’s something particularly special about the Sidi Idriss Hotel in Tunisia. It stood in for Luke Skywalker’s ranch back on Tattooine in Star Wars Episode III: A New Hope and it’s still open today. And it looks exactly the same today as it did 40 years ago.
Maya Bay as seen in The Beach
Where: Koh Phi Phi Le, Ao Nang Thailand Read more: The Beach Filming Locations in Thailand This is the most-visited beach in Thailand. And though you may have heard it closed in 2018, from personal experience, I can tell you that boat trips still enter the cove and you can snorkel in the waters. You just can’t (currently) set foot on the beach. Maya Bay in Koh Phi Phi Lei is where Danny Boyle filmed his backpacker movie The Beach and with some CGI trickery made it seem closed off from the res...
Hongcun Ancient Village as seen in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Where: Northwest Corner, Yi County 245500 China China doesn’t feature in Western films too often, so the best we have is Hongcun Ancient Village which was featured in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon directed by Taiwanese American director Ang Lee. It may have been an untouched, almost abandoned village once but now it’s very popular with tourists. Fun fact: the village is built in the shape of an ox head, with a nearby mountain as the face and houses lining the river as the horns.
Lebua State Tower as seen in The Hangover Part II
Where: 1055 Si Lom, Silom, Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500, Thailand Read more: The Hangover Part II Filming Locations in Bangkok Bangkok is known for its rooftop bars and one of the fanciest, shmanciest of them all is the Lebua bar at the State Tower. This is where Bradley Cooper & Co. attempts to strike a deal with Paul Giamatti to get themselves out of hot water and find the bride’s younger brother in The Hangover Part II. If you go to the bar (and you absolutely should!), order the Hangovertini....
King’s Canyon as seen in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Where: Petermann NT 0872, Australia One of my favourite queer films, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert follows three drag performers who travel from Sydney to Alice Springs for a show in an old bus named Priscilla. The three protagonists dress in their Gladrags at the end of the film and stand on top of King’s Canyon in the Northern Territory. They did consider Uluru or Ayer’s Rock for the location, but it’s a sacred structure. Their path was hilariously renamed ‘Priscilla’s Cr...
Hobbiton as seen in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Where: 501 Buckland Road, Matamata 3472, New Zealand Who wouldn’t want to stay for tea at Bilbo Baggins’ house in Bag End? The studio set of Hobbiton, which was built for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, is open to visitors and Hobbits alike. There are so many iconic movie locations from the series around New Zealand, but this is the most accessible to visitors. And honestly, doesn’t it look outstanding? So much detail and creativity. Let’s just hope you don’t spot Gollum or any Black Riders wh...
Pine Oak Court as seen in Neighbours
Where: Vermont South VIC 3133, Australia I know few people outside of the UK and Australia have heard of the hit soap opera Neighbours. Far fewer think it’s good, and even fewer actually watch it. I’m in that latter category, so this entry is purely self-indulgent. I actually have “making a pilgrimage to Ramsay Street“, the fictional Neighbours neighbourhood (called Pine Oak Court in Melbournein real life) on my bucket list. But you can’t blame me. Apparently, it’s where good neighbours becom...
Devil’s Tower as seen in Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Where: WY-110, Devils Tower, WY 82714, USA Before it was a makeshift helicopter pad for otherworldly beings in Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Devil’s Tower in Wyoming was the USA’s first national monument and a sacred place for indigenous tribes. The shape of this rock formation is striking and superimportant to the plot of the film. It might not be the easiest shooting location in the USA to visit, but I bet it’s one of the most fascinating. Apparently, you can rock climb it...
Route 66 as seen in Easy Rider
Where: Chicago Illinois to Los Angeles, California USA Read more: 50 Best American Movies to Inspire a Trip to Every State Not one of the most famous movie locations that you can easily visit today, but one of the coolest! Easy Rider romanticises the hippie and free love generation. And driving down Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles(or vice versa) is a dream for many petrolheads and fans of Americana from this bygone era. They may have shot the film on the real Route 66, but the old highwa...
Art Institute of Chicago as seen in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Where: 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603, USA One day, a ballsy teenager named Ferris Bueller decided to skip school and have an unforgettable day off in his hometown of Chicago. In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, he and his pals steal an expensive car, sing and dance on a parade float and admire some hella expensive and famous art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Kids stuff, you know? It is a really amazing gallery, though. The institute features notable works like American Gothic, Water Lilli...
Prairie Mountain as seen in Brokeback Mountain
Where: Kananaskis, AB T0L 0K0, Canada Read more: Brokeback Mountain Filming Locations in Canada & the USA There are so many films that shoot in Canada as a stand-in for somewhere else. Which is a shame, because Canada has so many beautiful locations! It should be able to claim a few for itself. The Canadian Rockies feature more than a few times as a stand-in for US northern states. In Brokeback Mountain, Prairie Mountain in Albertaacts as a mountain range in Wyoming where Heath Ledger and Jak...
Iguazu Falls as seen in Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull
Where: Misiones Province, Argentina and Paraná, Brazil Indiana Jones sure gets about a bit. First, he’s hitting up Petra, one of the seven man-made wonders of the world, and now he’s tackling one of the seven natural wonders of the world in Iguazu Falls in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.Situated on the border between Argentina and Brazil, it’s actually a system of approx. 275 falls that make up the world’s largest waterfall.
Machu Picchu as seen in The Motorcycle Diaries
Where: 08680, Peru If anyone’s counting, Machu Picchu in Peru makes this the third and final wonder of the world on this list of famous movie locations. The Incan city is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But what isn’t at this point? Every item on this list is beautiful, famous, awe-inspiring or all three. Gael García Bernal’s Che Guevara visits Machu Picchu during the biographical film The Motorcycle Diaries. Production really went all out, because so many of the films were true-to-life, i...
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- Al-Khazneh in Petra, Jordan - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. When it comes to iconic views of Jordan, only some come close to Al Khazna or The Treasury.
- The Art Institute of Chicago - Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The Art Institute of Chicago is only in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" for a few fleeting minutes. Yet Chicagoans will forever talk about it.
- Café des 2 Moulins in Paris, France - Amélie. In her namesake film, Amélie Poulin works at the Café des 2 Moulins. Located in Paris, France, the cafe, whose name translates to the Cafe of Two Windmills, references the two famed windmills in the city at the Moulin Rouge and the Moulin de la Galette.
- Cabazon Dinosaurs in Cabazon, California - Pee-wee's Big Adventure. The enormous roadside attractions known as the Cabazon Dinosaurs have been delighting visitors for decades.
From Spaghetti Western to science fiction, these are the locations behind some of your favorite movies and shows. Tweet Reddit. 1. Alnwick, England. Alnwick Castle. You might recognize this...
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