Not a movie tie-in, but Atlanta has a pretty good trade going on right now in Walking Dead location tours. And Senoia GA (Woodbury from earlier in the series) has a thriving business in zombie-tourism.
Twede’s Café (Norma’s, the Log Lady’s diner) in North Bend, Washington where Special Agent Dale Cooper of *Twin Peaks *had his famous slice of cherry pie and a “damn fine cup of coffee”.
In Thailand:
Maya Bay: Where “The Beach” was filmed, now swarming with boatloads of tourists every day.
“James Bond” Island where the opening of “Man within the Golden Gun” was filmed.
Kachanaburi: famous as the location of the Bridge on the River Kwai
Centralia, PA was a bit of a draw for urbexers, though there isn’t all that much there to see. It wasn’t until it got out that Centralia was the inspiration for the fictional town of Silent Hill really started to draw gawkers. The movies are more responsible than the games for the increased interest.
Rouleau, Saskatchewan (aka “Dog River”) for Corner Gas fans:
My husband and I stopped by Randy’s Donuts on our way back to LAX just because of Iron Man.
The house from Goonies in Astoria, OR. I went there a couple of years ago, and it still gets a fair amount of visitors.
A couple in Great Britain:
Portmeirion, in northern Wales - first as the filming location of The Village in The Prisoner, and then I think it has been used for a number of weddings in movies/TV.
Cricket St. Thomas Estate, in Somerset, England - the location for the British TV series To the Manor Born. At the time, the estate was private (they didn’t reveal the location until the end of the final episode), but since then it has become an animal preserve of some sort and parts of it are open to the public.
Not sure how popular it is anymore, but once I went looking for that street corner in “The Exorcist” (Georgetown, Washington, D.C.) where Father Karras met his (supposed) end. I didn’t find it, either.
I once passed through Winslow, Arizona. It seems that the cornerhas become quite the tourist attraction.
They’ve also used it, I understand, as a setting for Fan Conventions for The Prisoner. Wouldn’t mind attending one of those, myself.
Beautiful city. I wonder how many people go there because of the Sound of Music then get confused when they realize if you walk over the mountains from Salzburg you end up in Germany not Switzerland.
Or if you have ever been deployed you realize they would fuck in actual dumps. And porta-potties, IDF bunkers…
It’s still pretty popular. And still looks the same.
It’s a great museum. That reminds me, I need to go back. The last time I was there was for the traveling Van Gogh exhibit.
This reminds me of the steps in Silver Lake (Los Angeles) up and down which Laurel and Hardy moved the piano in The Music Box.
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The Music Box - Wikipedia*
If this was already mentioned, I shall not commit seppuku at once.
The John Wayne movie The Quiet Man features a scene on a bridge that now has its own TripAdvisor attraction page. The bridge is in Galway, Ireland.
Though it wasn’t filmed there, Talkeetna, Alaska claims to be the town that was the inspiration for Northern Exposure.
Am I the only Midwesterner who tries to hit Mother’s whenever he’s in Chicago? I pretend I’m Rob Lowe looking for Demi Moore in “About Last Night”. I can’t be the only one.
I wonder if anyone goes to gawk or drive through the 2nd street tunnel in L.A.
It’s funnier when they get the bad GPS directions and end up on the back stairs.
California’s Soledad Canyon tunnel has been seen in many movies and TV shows, most notably The Rockford Files and It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World:
Chicago’s Billy Goat Tavern is still coasting on the whole “Cheeseburger cheeseburger Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi” thing, 35+ years later.
Alcatraz Island.