# Locations that are popular mostly because they appeared in movies

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> [@Shoeless](#):
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> Devil’s Tower, WY? I have no idea how well known it was before “Close Encounters”, but I had never heard of it before that.

Visited it in person in 1972. It is quite impressive.

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