re: Movie landmarks you’ve visited

I've never gone to a location because of a movie, but I have been to Resurrection Bay in Seward, Alaska where they filmed the opening of The Hunt for Red October.

Remember that old 1980s horror movie House with William Katt and George Wendt.

When I lived in California, we lived a few streets away from the House

I’ve been to many others, not because of a movie just because many movie landmarks are famous places in general.

But the House house is the most obscure and random movie landmark I’ve been to.


Almost forgot, the house from that Sandra Bullock movie Birdbox was right down the street from where we lived.

And for Psych fans, there was a couple episodes that featured Gus’ parents home. The outside shots of the house were from another home in our neighborhood.

Hobbiton, Rivendell, and Helm’s Deep from LOTR. Hobbiton was great to see. Helm’s Deep was just a quarry.

Exorcist stairs in DC

When I first moved to Chicago, that was one thing I did right away. Went by the Home Alone house, the fancy garage from Ferris Bueller, the motel from Planes Trains and Automobiles, and my personal favorite, the water fountain from Married With Children.

Went to the Valley of Fire in Nevada where several movies and TV shows including Star Trek shot alien planet scenes.

Also is a southern tradition to take your mom and aunts to the Steel Magnolia house in Natchitoches.

Most of the Midtown Manhattan sites - Central Park, Waldorf lobby, Trump Tower, Tiffany's, FAO Schwartz, Times Square, Chrysler building, ESB, Flat Iron, St. Patrick's, Rockefeller (with the Christmas tree up and lit), NY Public Library with the lions out front, etc.

Pearl Harbor and the Lost "arrival" beach.

Site of the Hindenburg disaster

Front Street in Natchitoches (Steel Magnolias, among others)

Virtually any site at LSU including the stadium and quad from Everybody's All American

The old governor's mansion in Baton Rouge (see The Expendables, among others), and all the sites around the new capital (The Toy and many others)

ETA: I forget the name of the place, but the retro café in Laplace from Monster's Ball - I want to say Airline Motors, but I'm not sure if it was that one or the other place.

Also ETA: The Mall in D.C. - too many to count

Not a movie but I’ve been to a wedding at Southfork a few years ago.

Also did the piano thing from Big.

Also the Steel Magnolia house.

The stairs that Hector staggered down in the chainsaw scene in Scarface (South Beach)

Went to the Goonies house when I visited Astoria.

A lot of the scenes from the Pitch Perfect movies were around LSU.

Thailand - The Beach and The man with the Golden Gun

Cambodia - Tomb Raider

Iceland - Game of Thrones

Prague - One of the Mission Impossible movies

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