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35 Fictional Locations You Can Visit Right Here in the Real World

By:: Jay L'Ecuyer; Cracked Writers

April 05, 2024

35 Fictional Locations You Can Visit Right Here in the Real World

Apologies if this list takes some of the magic out of your favorite otherworldly realms. We just hope that providing you with the opportunity to visit their real world locations will help make up for it. Hey, now that we think about it, you can use this list as a film location bucket list of sorts. Print it out and read it while driving like MapQuest! Yeesh. Remember that thick stack of MapQuest directions? How did any of us survive?

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Kingsman's tailor shop scenes are filmed at a real tailor shop. It's called Huntsman & Sons, and it inspired the franchise .. at an appointment there, creator Matthew Vaughn got the idea for a place like that being a spy headquarters. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A bunch of Elf scenes were shot in an abandoned mental institution. The Riverview Hospital in British Columbia, Canada was used for Greenway Press, the orphanage, and the Hobbs' apartment. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Camp Crystal Lake from Friday the 13th is real (kind of), and you can go there. Camp NOBEBOSCO WELCOME TO CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE Those scenes were shot at Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco, a Boy Scouts camp in New Jersey that's still active today. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Crait scenes in The Last Jedi were shot on the world's largest salt flat. It's called Salar de Uyuni, and it stretches over 4,086 square miles in Bolivia. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Theed Royal Palace in The Phantom Menace was where Nazi Germany surrendered. That's Caserta Palace in Italy, and it's the place where the Allied High Command for the Mediterranean was established in 1943. In 1945, a delegation from Germany signed their country's surrender there. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The real-life King's Landing was the site of a long siege. The city of Dubrovnik, Croatia, doubled for King's Landing on Game of Thrones, and Dubrovnik was heavily fought over in the Croatian War of Independence -- in 1991, it was shelled by artillery for three months. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jurassic World was shot in a theme park abandoned after Hurricane Katrina. The park was Six Flags, New Orleans, and it was so heavily flooded after Katrina that it never reopened. Shooting in a place like that had some advantages - namely, that the production was pretty safe from people snooping around. CRACKED.COM — Source

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They tested military hardware at the site where Skyfalr's finale was filmed. The location was Hankley Common in the south of England, and that's where the British army tested a tank designed to smash through walls in WWII. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM AVENGERS MARVEL'S When not used to experiment on the Tesseract, NASA's Space Power Facility, near Sandusky, Ohio, is the world's largest vacuum chamber. — Source

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SESSION c Danvers State Hospital is a real abandoned mental asylum. No set dressing was necessary -the place was already as spooky as seen on screen, complete with patient records and other creepy memorabilia. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM JOHN CARPENTER'S ESCAPE FROM nEw YORK The final scenes were shot at WORK PRODUCTION Sepulveda Dam, ERNEST ADE built in the 1940s -in Los Angeles. — Source

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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND Devil's Tower in Wyoming was made America's first national monument by Theodore Roosevelt. Geologists disagree about its formation, but it's undeniably a cool spot to land your spaceship. CRACKED.COM — Source

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the TRUMAN show The Truman Show was filmed in Seaside, Florida. Yes, that idealized town of pastel homes is real, and you can visit it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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35 Fictional Locations You Can Visit Right Here in the Real World — Source

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JACKIE CHAN E T THE KOREA - - - THE Las FORBIDDEN MUMMY CROUCHING TIGER KINGDOM Тома OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR HIDDEN DRAGON - - KUFETAR Hengdian Movie Studios in Zhejiang, sometimes called Chinawood, is the world's largest outdoor film studio. They have full-scale replicas of the Forbidden City and the Old Summer Palace, and will build any elaborate set your movie needs-for free. CRACKED.COM — Source

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RFK was assassinated in the hotel from The Graduate. Robert Kennedy spoke at The Ambassador Hotel's ballroom and then walked through the kitchen on the way to the press area. An assassin jumped out from behind an ice machine and shot him fatally. The hotel went on to become a popular filming location anyway. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Clockwork Orange's brutal buildings are the real-life Thamesmead South Housing Estate. The estate was built in the '60s to look ultramodern, with sharp angles, pyramid roofs, and skywalks. The area later became known as the fraud capital of the UK. There were streets in the complex where every address was accused of running a credit card fraud scheme. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Fugitive's tunnels are Chicago's freight network. The city dug these underground passages at the start of the 20th century for a phone system that was never built. In 1992, a leak sprung. and the Chicago River dumped 250 million gallons of water into the tunnels. Various basements flooded as a result, and the water rose into the streets. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Last Jedi featured the remote island of Skellig Michael. After the film came out, tourism on the protected Irish island soared. And by soared, we mean thousands more visited every year than UNESCO said the island can safely sustain. CRACKED.COM — Source

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California's Spahn Ranch has an IMDb page most actors would kill for. It was used as a backdrop for everything from The Lone Ranger and Bonanza to shoddy softcore porn. Then, in 1970, it hosted the notorious Manson Family. Once the cult was arrested, they left the ranch empty. A few months later, a wildfire raged through and destroyed all the sets. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Harry Potter 7 filmed in a German town Rothenburg ob der Tauber retains the look of a fairy tale because many of its buildings date back to medieval times. In 1945, the Nazis agreed to surrender it to ensure the town wouldn't be attacked, because they valued its beauty that much. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gladiator filmed at Fort Ricasoli in Malta. In 1807, soldiers there mutinied against the British. As food ran out, most fled, leaving just five inside. Before the British stormed the place to capture them, they managed to set fire to the powder room, which blew up, taking out half the fort. CRACKED COM — Source

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The evil Skyfall lair is Gunkanjima in Japan. It used to house some 5,250 miners on just 16 acres. In 1974, the coal there ran out, and new jobs were offered on the mainland on a first-come, first-served basis. The residents fled the island as fast as they could, leaving toys on the floor and cups of coffee on the tables. GRACKED.COM — Source

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The Princess Bride's cliffs of insanity are Ireland's Cliffs of Moher. In 1588, watchmen here spotted Spanish ships approaching, and they assumed Spain had conquered England and would conquer Ireland next. They brutally killed 300 men aboard the ships. Only then did they realize the Spanish were retreating from England and had come to Ireland to request aid. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Big Lebowski filmed in Greystone Mansion. It was built in the 1920s by the son of tycoon Edward Doheny. Ned Doheny was found shot in a bedroom there five months after he and his wife moved in. Also dead was butler Theodore Plunkett, an apparent suicide. Was Plunkett crazy? Were he and Ned secret lovers? CRACKED.COM — Source

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X-MEN Hatley Castle in British Columbia, Canada doubles for Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. It has also been used as a shooting location in Arrow and Smallville. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRACKED.COM FATHER of the BRIDE The house in Pasadena, California where Steve Martin and Diane Keaton (and their daughter) lived is visited every day by fans, and couples get engaged on the doorstep. The owners strive to keep it picture-perfect. — Source

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GH6STBUSTERS LADDER-5 -B-HOOK & LAD The Hook & Ladder Company No. 8 Firehouse in Tribeca, NYC was cut in half in 1914 to widen the adjacent street, giving the busters' headquarters its iconic look. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Most of Trainspotting was shot in the abandoned Wills Tobacco factory in Glasgow. Because of its shoestring budget, cast and crew lived there through the 49 days of filming. Trainspotting CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Malcolm x This was the first fiction film to get permission to shoot in Месса. A special crew was assembled, as only Muslims are allowed into the city. — Source

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The Teletubbies' hill was located in a field Teletubbies DI in Wimpstone, Warwickshire, England. Was. The landowner turned the place into a pond after she got sick of trespassing fans. CRACKED.COM — Source

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RESTAURA TOM'S RESTAURANT CIBIOSA Tom's Restaurant in Manhattan provides all the exterior shots for Monk's Café. It's also the same eatery that Suzanne Vega sings about in Tom's Diner. 4 Seinfeld CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM CL RKS Quick STOP GROCERIES I ASSURE YOURWERE OPEN! Clerks was shot in a grocery store where Kevin Smith was working at the time. The joke about the jammed locks was written in because they could only film at night. — Source

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CRACKED.COM STAR WARS You can stay at Luke Skywalker's home in Tatooine! The Lars Homestead is actually the Hotel Sidi Driss in Matmata, Tunisia. — Source

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THE SSAHW The Abyss wasn't filmed on the ocean's bottom, but in an unfinished nuclear reactor near Gaffney, South Carolina, filled with 7.5 million gallons of water. CRACKED.COM — Source

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