It’s gone now, and it was a fairly famous restaurant to start with, but Lee Ho Fooks became a destination with the Warren Zevon song Werewolves of London.
I was walking through the streets of Soho in the rain when I came across it, and of course I had to eat there. I did not, however, order beef chow mein.
The Bradbury Building in LA, which was used probably most famously in Blade Runner, along with about a dozen other films. Not bad for something that started out as an ordinary office building.
I spent 3 days there. It was a great jumping off point for seeing the Hoh Rain Forest and the north coast beaches. My wife and I did eat at the Bella Italia restaurant in Port Townsend that was actually used in the movie.
Drove through Roslyn, Washington once. There was a TV crew filming outdoor scenes for Northern Exposure.
My wife and I stumbled across the Pierce Brothers cemetery in LA a few years ago. More dead celebrities in a half acre that anyplace else in the world.
I visited there a few years ago when I was in L.A. Someone already mentioned Demon With a Glass Hand. The Bradbury is also rather prominent in the American remake of M from 1951.
A few blocks east on Beacon St. is a house that served as Mulholland’s Rare Books and Prints on the TV series Banacek. I sometimes wonder if the owners are aware of it.
US Highway 50 across northern Nevada got written up in some magazine as “the lonliest road”, so now it is supposed to be a thing, to drive it with this little book that you get a stamp in at several towns to show that you drove it. As to being well named, no, not even close.