I’ve been up and down the San Francisco streets where the famous chase scenes in *Bullitt *were filmed.
I’ve been in both Portage Bay and Alki Beach, where Meg Ryan watched Tom Hanks and his movie son motorboat to play toss, in Sleepless In Seattle. That’s one hell of a trip to take in a small motorboat, by the way. I wouldn’t try it.
I’ve been to the small beach in southern California where all the action took place in Gidget. Can’t remember the name of it now.
According to IMDB, 144 films or TV show episodes have scenes filmed in or around Las Cruces, NM. Most of which I have never heard of, and only two of which I have seen.
The opening scenes of Hang Em High were filmed by the Rio Grande. I couldn’t tell you the exact location, but that landscape is definitely ours.
Gas, Food, Lodging has an exterior shot of what the movie bills as a hospital. Actually, it is Gerald Thomas Hall, home of the Agriculture department at NMSU.
Curse II: The Bite was filmed here. I have not seen the film, but I remember seeing the crew when they were filming scenes at NMSU. I saw Jamie Farr from about 50 yards away. (He gave one interview to the local paper. He was not impressed with the town.)
A few that haven’t been mentioned yet–
The Alabama Hills, east of Lone Pine, CA where hundreds of movies and TV shows used for location filming.
Red Rock Canyon State Park, CA was the backdrop for many western and sci-fi shows.
There used to be a movie set in the Paria River canyon north of UT89, I visited there before it got washed away in a flash flood. They rebuilt the set, but it got burned down after that.
Oh, and Monument Valley.
Kind of the OP, but not quite…
I saw “The Hunt for Red October” in the theater when it first came out. The theater was in Bangor, Maine, which is on the Penobscot River, about 20 miles upstream from the ocean.
One of the final scenes of the movie is Captain Ramius and Jack Ryan speaking while standing on the sail of the Red October. The subtitles indicated that their location was up the Penobscot river, in Maine! Quite a cheer from the unsuspecting movie-going crowd went up at that point, and got louder as Ryan points to an island, saying, “I grew up around here, my grandfather taught me to fish off that island.”
Of course, the scene was actually filmed on a lake in one of the Carolinas, I believe. 
The site of the house in What Lies Beneath is now occupied by a stone picnic shelter at a state park in Vermont. Camped there two weeks ago. Nice lake view.
(The shelter was built by the movie studio after the house set was removed.)
According to google, Leo Carrillo State Beach.
I grew up in Culver City. I went to a Catholic elementary school, and our church was directly across from the front entrance to MGM Studios (on Sundays, our overflow parking was the MGM lot across the street).
So, yeah, practically everything I saw as a kid had familiar shots in it. Too many to mention. The closest physically (other than once when our church was used in an old Richard Boone TV show) was a Twilight Zone episode where a guy’s car chased him down for committing a hit-and-run murder. There was a park scene, which was a block from the house I grew up in. That same episode had a scene in the local branch library parking lot at Vet’s Park where I worked in high school.
I see movie signs all over the place now. Ubiquitous.
Just a few…
Along with certain scenes from the movie of the same name, Sunset Blvd. has been seen in numerous films, including the senseless car race action of Against All Odds (where in alternate shots, they are driving east or west). Norma Desmond’s mansion in Sunset Blvd., was, of course, not on Sunset Blvd., being located at the intersection of S. Irving Blvd. and Wilshire Blvd.
One of the oddest experiences I’ve had was watching the obscure film noir The Crooked Way (1949) in which the intersection of Sepulveda Blvd. and Sunset Blvd. is referenced. The 405 Freeway, which began construction in 1957, obliterated this intersection and the two streets have never crossed paths since I’ve been alive.
I was actually in one of the buildings (not a set) on the MGM lot while they were shooting police station scenes for Last Action Hero (1993). I recall seeing numerous midgets and dwarves in black leather waiting around. I believe they were intended to be background extras, their smaller size giving the illusion they were farther away from the foreground than they actually were (and hence, that the size of the station was bigger than it was).
Pacific Ocean Park was used as a location for many movies and TV shows, most notably the final episode of The Fugitive. I was there twice, both times after it had closed.
The hospital scenes in the movie “Due Date” were shot at a local hospital. The hospital had just completed construction on an annex but not yet officially opened i, making it ideal for filming. My wife was having some surgery at the time. From the surgery waiting room I could look down into the first floor lobby and see them filming an interior scene with Robert Downey, Jr. From her recovery room I could look out the window and see them filming exterior scenes with Jaimie Foxx. I learned that making movies is not so much a spectator sport. Good heavens was that boring! They must have shot a scene of RDJ walking out of the hospital 100 times.
I had seen it several times, but was delighted to notice on a recent rewatch that the scene from the campy 1960s Batman: The Movie where Batman is running around unable to get rid of a bomb was filmed on the Santa Barbara pier.
Boogie Nights was filmed almost entirely in the San Fernando Valley. Fittingly, as most of American Porn is filmed there anyway.
The nightclub where they met, the donut shop where the shootout happened, the parking lot where Eddie was turning tricks and other scenes were all filmed within a few blocks of Sherman Way and Reseda Blvd in Reseda.
Breaking Away was set in Bloomington, IN, home of Indiana University where I went to college. I saw lots of familiar settings.
The movie Easy A was filmed in my home town. Most of it took place in my high school, which they renamed “Ojai North High School” (the real name is Nordhoff, so all the buildings were labeled NHS). The downtown restaurant they went to (I think it was supposed to be a seafood restaurant) was actually a Carrow’s. According to Wikipedia, all the houses used in the film were not sets, but actual homes of Ojai residents (which is easy for me to believe).
I worked for a restaurant delivery service for a few years here in Portland. I drove all over the metro area on a daily basis, and saw the insides of many homes, of all types, in all neighborhoods.
If you’ve watched Portlandia, most of the skits start out with a shot of a house or building, with text on the screen saying something like “NE Glisan St.” First of all, those street names are real. I won’t say I’ve ever thought “hey, I’ve seen that house,” but the building they show is typical of the neighborhood that the stated street resides in. And when they show the inside of a house, it matches what the inside of homes in the area look like. In other words, just going by what I see, I’d say the chances are good that the house being shown, inside and out, truly does reside on the street named on screen.
Of course, some of the business and downtown locations I do recognize, but I can’t think of any offhand. Maybe I should watch the series again and see how many locations I can say I’ve been to. 
I was confused by the Marvel Black Panther movie cuz it was set in Wauconda but it was full of black people. I’ve been to Wauconda and there aren’t enough black people to fill out the royal family, much less an army. 
I’d forgotten to mention the Rodney Dangerfield movie Back to School. Most of the exterior campus scenes were shot at the University of Wisconsin-Madison while I was a student there. The scenes which took place outside of the dorms were shot at the dorm where I was living (Tripp-Adams), and at the dorm across the street (Schlicter) – it was the building where Dangerfield’s dorm room was located, though it was, in fact, a girl’s dorm at that time.
I recognized Casa Loma in “Scott Pilgrim” (of course) and I instantly recognized the underground path beneath the Royal York Hotel in the trailer for “Shazam”.
Fun thread.
I too was in Johnstown, PA for the filming of Slapshot, which was a huge deal at the time. In addition to the locations already mentioned, a scene with a van careening down a steep hill alongside the steel plant was filmed in Franklin borough, on a street I traversed almost every day for work; and there was a fake soda fountain created for the movie in a downtown building facing Central Park (the park was also the location of the parade at the end of the movie).
I lived in Paris for several years, so there are any number of films where I might recognize a place I’d been; the most recent ones I can think of that included recognizable locations I frequented were Ronin (the Zenith concert hall in La Villette, about a half mile from my flat) and Inception (the Seine bridge near the Bir-Hakeim Metro stop).
Same movie: several scenes were filmed on a bypassed, derelict section of the Pennsylvania turnpike near Breezewood, PA that included an abandoned tunnel. I hiked that stretch several times.
Lastly, sometime back in the early '80s I found myself in Iquitos, Peru, where I happened to take a photo of a striking Victorian-style river boat that was tied up at a wharf in town. It was only a few years later when I saw the movie that I realized it was the vessel that gets hauled over a mountain in Fitzcarraldo.
You could have stopped by to say hi. 
Me too! I remember having to find a detour going down Bascom to get to Helen C White for Sanskrit Literature in Translation because they were filming a scene on Bascom. Rodney was in his bathrobe.
A favorite movie, from an excellent book.
Yes, North Carolina.