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12 Famous Hollywood Movie Locations

November 26, 2015
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Remember James Bond traversing the chilly Lake Altausee, Austria, in the spy’s latest movie, Spectre?  (Photo: trekearth.com)
Remember James Bond traversing the chilly Lake Altausee, Austria, in the spy’s latest movie, Spectre? (Photo: trekearth.com)
Remember James Bond traversing the chilly Lake Altausee, Austria, in the spy’s latest movie, Spectre?  (Photo: trekearth.com)
Mount Cook in New Zealand was the stunning backdrop of some of the aerial shots in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. (Photo: newzealand.com)
Ben Affleck’s 2012 movie Argo is set in 1970 Tehran. Due to production restrictions in Iran, however, some scenes were filmed in Istanbul instead. (photo from: wikipedia.org)
Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark fought their way in the forests of Dupont State in North Carolina in Hunger Games. (Photo: carolinamountain.org)
Walter Mitty took a wild adventure in Iceland in the film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. (Photo: (elyseaholidays.com)
While majority of the production for Memoirs of a Geisha was shot in California, the team also flew to Kyoto, Japan, to film important scenes for the movie. (Photo: japan-guide.com)
Fans of The Hangover will surely take pleasure in admiring Bangkok’s beautiful skyline on top of the lebua at State Tower while sipping their cocktails in the open rooftop restaurant and bar of the hotel. (Photo: lebua.com)
Although Sex and the City 2 showed Carrie Bradshaw and her girlfriends taking a girls’ trip to Abu Dhabi, the desert scenes and other exotic locations depicted in the film were actually shot in Morocco after the producers were denied permission to film in the United Arab Emirates.  (Photo: saharagatetours.com)
One of the scenes where Bruce Wayne (a.k.a. Batman) was imprisoned in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises was shot near the Mehrangarh Fort in Rajasthan, India. (Photo: commons.wikimedia.org)
Julia Roberts’ character definitely found love in the majestic town of Ubud in Bali in Eat, Pray, Love. (Photo: balivillashvr.com)
Recreating scenes from The Vatican City, Dan Brown’s film version of Angels & Demons, which starred Tom Hanks, was set in the seat of the Holy See. (Photo: commons.wikimedia.org)
One of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages, the Ely Cathedral located in the United Kingdom hosted various historical films such as  Oscar-winning The King’s Speech, The Other Boleyn Girl, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and a few others.  (Photo: easterncathedrals.org.uk)

If you’ve been keeping up on films in the past few years, chances are you’ve come across a great number of scenes that make you wonder just where they were shot. Now you can travel just like in the movies as we list 12 locations around the globe where famous Hollywood movies were filmed, from the Hunger Games to the latest Bond movie, Spectre.

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