Film & TV locations you've always wanted to visit

The Emerald City. Then gutted to find out it wasn't even a set, just some mattes.

Venice in The Comfort of Strangers.

I forgot to add that I made it to the island camp film location for "The Beach" which is Maya Bay in Thailand. It was fucking amazing!

S1 of Outlander got me interested in the Scottish Highlands. I’m hoping to plan a trip there this fall.

That sounds awesome R4! Those are some beautiful locations.

I've always wanted to go to Martha's Vineyard and see places where they filmed my all-time favorite movie Jaws. According to this page Roy Scheider's house is completely different looking now but a lot of it still looks the same.

^I didn't see RS, but I did go out to Chappaquiddick where the beach scenes were staged and also saw "the" bridge - which leaves little doubt that Kennedy was just drunk/impaired & bailed when he drove off that bridge.

I went to Scotland a couple of years ago & practically every Highland tourist was there because of Outlander. Not there's anything wrong with that, but if I'd spend more time in Glasgow & exploring the other island than Skye, which is also overrun with tourists.

All the BBC British Regency dramas are set in Cornwall, Devon, and Dorset.

The coasts look lovely.

I've been to many other parts of England, but I'd like to see the SW.

^Me too; even though it kind of sucked, the recent remake of Jamaica Inn was set in Cornwall, I think & it was just so gray & beautiful. It makes you want to go & just wander around the moors

Aren't The Moors in the North of England?

The sunset blvd house but it was razed years ago.

The boogie nights pool party house.

The player party house

Basically all the LA onscreen party houses

I'd like to AirBnB in Cherry Jones's house in "Poker Face"

r7, what time of year were you there? I was thinking about October. Mostly a golf trip but still deciding if it would be better to plan on my own or get a package tour. I figure Outlander's popularity has peaked and most people will have wrapped up holidays by September, The Highlands can get quite chilly in October.

When I saw Vin Diesel's XXX in the theater I had no idea about Prague. The location stole the show. I finally visited many years later and it is indeed fantastic.

The house in The Long Goodbye on Malibu Colony Road ignited an interest in Los Angeles I had never felt before, growing up in New Jersey, then being a college student in DC.

I went to Filoli, where they shot the pilot and exteriors for Dynasty. I also saw Highclere Castle, which was Downton Abbey. The cool thing about Highclere is it looks like Downton inside, too. Basically, they used a lot of their furniture.

I always wanted to do the Sound of Music Salzburg tour but could never find anyone willing to go with me.

The place where Doc Martin was filmed.

The house in An Affair to Remember.

I now live about 90 minutes from Pasadena, and if I can get there on a lazy Sunday, I'll look for the house where the exteriors for "Family" were filmed.

Just make sure that heifer Kate Lawrence doesn't run after me with a rolling pin.

I forgot I also saw Seabiscuit's stable in Greenwich Village.

[quote][R7], what time of year were you there? I was thinking about October. Mostly a golf trip but still deciding if it would be better to plan on my own or get a package tour. I figure Outlander's popularity has peaked and most people will have wrapped up holidays by September, The Highlands can get quite chilly in October.

I went in late April/early May. It was a bit chilly, but there weren't a lot of tourists. It was a great time to go - after travel to a National Park in August, I'll never travel again during peak tourist season.

Falcon Crest - forget the name of the actual winery and then I would recreate scenes impersonating all my favorite characters - Angela, Lance, Richard, Melissa but not either Vicky and of course do the Maggie Twirl

I spent an entire (glorious) day at Castle Howard, where Brideshead was filmed. Also, there was a scene in Maurice where Maurice is at Oxford and uses a stone pillar as a pretend person to practice introducing himself. I went to that little walkway with all the columns (Christ Church?).

I’ve always wanted to go to Benidorm and see just how trashy it is.

I’d also love to go to Weston-super-Mare where they filmed The Cafe but the actual cafe isn’t there any longer.

I've never been to Me.

Forrest Gump.

R22, yes, we remember that visit vividly.

Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse. Though the Disney World one was close.

The house in The Impossible Years.

There’s moors in the south of England, Dartmoor or Exmoor, something like that.

I want to go to the huge parkland where they film all the exterior scenes in historical movies because it’s all woods and dirt tracks. There’s a big obelisk in the center. It’s privately owned but open to visitors. I always forget the name. Somewhere in the south/southwest-ish part of England.

I'm a yuuuge fan of Latvian movies so last year when I happened to be in the region I visited Lielstraupe Castle, where one of my favorite movies called "THE SWAMP WADER" was filmed (starring the sexy Uldis Pucitis aka the Latvian Harrison Ford). It turned out to be a pretty charmless (and slightly spooky) place, probably because there was no young Uldis running around shirtless...

I visited Fort La Latte in Brittany and later saw the Kirk Douglas movie The Vikings that was filmed there. It was exactly like an the movie!

I worked as a Stand-In on a TV show a few years ago that shot on a stage behind the Clock Tower at Universal Studios

I would sometimes show up early in the morning and walk all over the backlot before the sun was up with no one around.

Standing in the diner where they shot Back to the Future and walking all around the Munsters, Leave it to Beaver and the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas houses blew my mind on a daily basis and it still is one of the most unique experiences of my life

I loved the house in the original The Parent Trap.

Venice. Summertime with Katharine Hepburn.

I roadtripped from Sydney to Broken Hill and spent the night in Mario's Palace Hotel

I’d like to kill two birds with one stone, and take a ride on the Prater Ferris wheel, site of two of the more memorable scenes from “The Third Man” (1949) & “Before Sunrise” (1995).

Hollywood on the Tiber -- the Rome of films of the 1950s and 1960s.

NYC late 1950s -- of Bell, Book & Candle with the Zodiac Club as gay bar, Kim Novak's shop and apartment above it, and James Stewart's book-lined office; and North by Northwest, when the Plaza was still the Plaza, a drive in Laura's Mercedes out to Old Westbury Gardens for cocktails (but not in the library, and with a taxi home), the seas of yellow cabs, the auction gallery, the Sioux City restaurant with the staged shooting, and the pre-AMTRAK trains and train station.

The Paris (and vicinity) of Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, with some Seville thrown into the works), not so different physically, but in the company of Buñuel and Fernando Rey.

Except Sioux City and some of the Paris outskirts locations, I know all of these places well in the present, I've added to OP's topic a time machine aspect to see a place in the time it was chosen as a location.

I did a personal tour in San Francisco of most of the locations for Vertigo. The final tower scene was originally way out of town in the movie, but is now in a suburban street. A huge buzz for me.

The mansion in Barry Lyndon

The Bodega Bay of The Birds

The Ekdahl home, decorated for Christmas, in Fanny and Alexander

Nightmare Before Christmas' Halloweentown

I love the look of Bell Book and Candle too r33. Also the artist/fiancé Merle’s apartment. All sets though except the Flatiron Building. (The roof scene was a set too).

I always wanted to go to the place that the famous 60's series The Prisoner was shot in, its called Portmeirion and its in South Wales.

Did get to it a few years ago, unfortunately it was pissing down when I got there

The The Filoli estate - the mansion in the aerial shots of the opening credits of 'Dynasty'. I had read that Aarron Spelling had re-created many of the 48 rooms and the foyer on the ABC set to replicate the original mansion. The mansion is owned by Filoli.org and is open to the public for tours.

The Golden Girls house!

I've been to the set of the Robin Williams Popeye movie in Malta, It is a dump (I knew it was before I went). In fact it's so bad it's funny (funnier than the movie), possibly the worst example of how to manage a tourist attraction ever.

Everytime I go to LA I tell myself I'm going to see the Six Feet Under house and Paddy's Pub. I haven't managed it yet.

R41 have you seen the AMC reboot from 2009 with Ian McKellen? It's pretty great.

Cabot Cove. If I ever go to the US, that's the first place I'll visit. Followed by Stars Hollow, which is in the neighbouring state, then capping the visit with Sunnydale.

When I was a 14 year old baby gay I desperately wanted to go to the Bonaventure Hotel in LA to re-create the opening to It’s a Living.

Warner Brothers Ranch where Gidget, Bewitched and Partridge Family (among others) exteriors were filmed.

Stars Hollow town square from Gilmore Girls.

R47 Sorry to disappoint you, but Cabot Cove is in Maine, while Stars Hollow is in Connecticut. They are not neigboring states.

St. Francis Academy in THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS.

As a nerd, I would like to visit all the UK quarries used in filming classic Doctor Who. Unlike the rest of the country, they haven't changed for the worse.

[quote]R47 Sorry to disappoint you, but Cabot Cove is in Maine, while Stars Hollow is in Connecticut. They are not neigboring states.

Sorry to disappoint you, R50 (and maybe R47), but Cabot Cove may have been set in Maine but it was filmed in Mendocino, California.

R48 I understand.

I would love to go see the Four Seasons in Taormina they used in The White Lotus--Sicily this season.

I tried posting this earlier but didn't potst, so here goes another try.

The mansion in "I Am Love" starring Tilda Swinton looks spectacular on film and I would love to be able to see it in real life.

R48, maybe this will fill the void until you get out to LA.

I watched Poldark on PBS Masterpiece a few years back and have been longing to visit Cornwall ever since.

Stars Hollow was filmed on location in Toronto for the pilot episode, but every other Stars Hollow scene was shot on the Warner Brothers backlot.

Lorelei Gilmore's house is the same house James Dean lived in East of Eden

As a kid in 1982 my family went to South Fork from Dallas. Disappointed I didn't see Sue Ellen.

Bedrock

R60 I grew up in a much bigger house than that. I was surprised that they used that to convey great wealth.

R46 wasnt aware there was a remake, will have to look out for that

[quote] have been longing to visit Cornwall

If you do hire an interpreter to accompany you

Doesn't antibody intend to see Captain Kirk's rocks ?

Cortina d’Ampezzo after seeing it in the original Pink Panther.

Rochefort, after Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.

I want to visit Mallorca because of Love Island UK.

R17 I would go to do the Sound of Music Tour in a minute. However, I also really want to see the gate at the Captain’s(or was it the Baroness’s house) that goes to the lake and I would love to twirl on the top of hill like Frauline Maria.

All of the Nova Scotia locations featured in "Dolores Claiborne", in and around Lunenburg.

Brownsville, Oregon: The hometown "Castle Rock" in "Stand By Me".

All three inspirations for The Overlook Hotel: The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park Colorado, The Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood, Oregon, and The Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite Valley, California.

The "On Golden Pond" house on Squam Lake, and the town of Holderness, New Hampshire.

DAR State Park in Addison, Vermont. The house built four "What Lies Beneath" was an exterior, and struck afterward, but it would be fun to find the location even if nothing's left.

Nelson, British Columbia, where the Steve Martin movie Roxane was filmed.

[quote]I would sometimes show up early in the morning and walk all over the backlot before the sun was up with no one around.

How romantical, Betty Schaefer. Except, a working studio runs 24/7 and you'd have to have encountered security patrolling the lot or crew members or someone who'd have questioned your presence.

It wasn’t a great dream of mine but we did a drive by of Jesse Pinkman’s house from Breaking Bad in Albuquerque since we were in the neighborhood.

The Italian locations in Angels and Demons.

You can walk between the locations in Rome used in Angels and Demons, the only places you have to pay to enter are The Vatican Museum and Castel Sant'Angelo. Each one is about $18. Entry to all the Churches (Pantheon, St Peters, Santa Maria del Popolo etc) in Rome is free, but they might encourage a donation.

The Vatican restaurant/café has excellent inexpensive food.

Too many to recount, especially those films/TV shows set in historic locations, capital cities, castles, cathedrals, museums, other buildings, and monuments, given that I've been traveled extensively throughout W. Europe, the UK, and the US (especially NYC). But some specific and special ones to me:

Did the "Rocky" run up the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum.

Ate pizza in "Mystic Pizza" of Mystic, CT.

Saw Michelangelo's "Madonna and Child" on site in Bruges, having been recovered from the Nazis in "The Monuments Men." (It goes almost without saying that I also visited the cathedral featuring in "In Bruges.")

Stood overlooking the Normandy beaches of "The Longest Day," "Saving Private Ryan," etc. But my visit to nearby Sainte-Mere-Eglise, with the church still adorned by the figure commemorating the US Airman caught on the steeple by his parachute, as portrayed in the former WW II movie by Red Buttons, and the village still displaying gratitude to Americans, was most gratifying.

Walked along the seaside row of cafes in Villefranche, as seen (but unnamed) in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

But the two coolest have been:

I live quite near and so have been to Dorney Park, the amusement park in Allentown, PA, where scenes for "Where Angels Go Trouble Follows" (1968) and "Hairspray" (1988) were filmed.

Finally, in NYC, upon randomly turning onto a side street, I found myself smack in the middle of a "Law and Order" filming location! And nobody stopped me! Alas, it was the Dennis Farina era (love him, but love Jerry Orbach above all!). I never did learn what episode it was.

Grammar correction for myself, r74: "...I've traveled...." Delete "been."

This is what I get for not composing beforehand. I forgot my several trips to....

Camden, Maine! The site of the movie version of "Peyton Place"! I watch the film like it's my own souvenir!

R51 omits that the location is in Ambler, PA.

R68, I was enchanted by colorful Luneberg!

The scene in The Fugitive in which Harrison Ford joins a St. Patrick’s Day parade in Chicago to elude the wily Tommy Lee Jones seized my imagination when I saw that the city dyes the river an amazing, vibrant green. I drove there last year, from Oregon, to see it. It was every bit as stunning and gorgeous as I could ever have hoped for.

That beautiful mill conversion house in ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS. Not sure if it’s for real though.

I went to Highclere Castle, the real Downton Abbey, a couple of years ago and it was a total blast to be there and see those rooms and the grounds up close

[quote]Camden, Maine! The site of the movie version of "Peyton Place"!

I went to Camden and thought it was beautiful. But I hadn't seen the movie, so I didn't get that added interest.