Sometimes scenes we see in movies strongly shock us - they are so amazing that we can't even imagine these places could exist... But some of them really do! So here is a list of places you can go on your vacations and, maybe, meet your favorite character!

Hotel Grand Budapest from the film of the same name — Karstadt, Görlitz, Germany

When the Berlin Wall had fallen, the building (and a little earlier, the city itself) was chosen by filmmakers. Goerlitz turned into "Gurlivud" - one of the main film sets of the cinema world. Thanks to the perfectly preserved architecture of different centuries, its narrow streets were easily disguised as any European capital. Here they filmed "The Reader" and "Inglorious Bastards", "Thief of Books" and "Treasure Hunters", "Around the World in 80 Days" and "Gyote!"

The creators of the Grand Budapest Hotel in the process of filming changed the interior of the Gorlitsky department store twice. At the beginning of the film, the action takes place in the 60s and only later is transferred to the 30s. For each time interval, their own decorations were created and modern, in yellow-orange tones, for the 30s - vintage, in the pink-red range. The work of art directors at the end of February was awarded the Oscar, but the department store turned into a place of pilgrimage for moviegoers even earlier, almost immediately Anderson's Movie in Berlin Film Festival.

Hogwarts - Christ Church College, Oxford, UK

This is one of the largest aristocratic colleges of Oxford University. Founded in 1525 by Cardinal Thomas Wolsi.
Christchurch graduates were thirteen British prime ministers, which is equal to the number of prime ministers who graduated from the remaining 45 colleges at Oxford and surpasses the result of any single college at Cambridge University.

Carrie Bradshaw’s Apartment - Perry Street, New York, USA

This is one of the oldest streets of Low Manhattan in New York. It passes to the northeast from Battery Park to Brooklyn Bridge, then turns to the west and ends on Central Street.
Pearl Street was the location of the first central American powerhouse of Thomas Edison, Pearl Street Station. Until the 1950s, an overground subway line ran down the street. In the 1970s, in the northern part of the street, New York Telephone built a 32-story administrative building (375 Pearl Street, or Verizon Building).

Cafe from "Amelie" - cafe "Two Mills", Paris, France

Cafe Two Mills Paris is located in Montmartre, in the 18th arrondissement of the capital (metro - Blanche). After the success of the film, this cafe became one of the main attractions of Paris.
Cafe Des Deux Moulins was opened at the beginning of the 20th century, but the current name it received only in the 1950s. The interior of the cafe has also not changed since the 50s. In the life of the cafe Two Mills seems much smaller than in the movies. Only the male waiters, not the female waiters, as shown in the film, work here.
This cafe, though inferior in size to such recognized metropolitan heavyweights as de Flore, Two Mago, Rotunda and Brasserie Lipp, but still it remains the most extravagant establishment of Paris, in the opinion of both Parisians themselves and tourists.

Forest Gump Lighthouse - Marshall Point, Maine, USA

Marshall Point Light Station is a lighthouse at the entrance of Port Clyde Harbor in Port Clyde, Maine. The light station was established in 1832.
The end of the Forrest Gump cross country run. Beautiful setting for this old lighthouse and museum. There is an old concrete ship sunk on the shelf just off the coast and you can have a wonderful talk with one of the docents. He had worked in Panama with a group of ferrymen from Virginia, who had sunk several WWII vintage concrete cargo ships as a breakwater. It truly is a small, small world.

Hotel from “The Shining” - Hotel Timberline Lodge, Oregon, USA

The novel came out more than 30 years ago, but this hotel is still historically significant and preserves mysticism.
The famous American horror writer Stephen King and his wife Tabitha lived in 1974 in the city of Boulder, Colorado. At the end of October, they spent the night in the mountain resort town of Estes-Park, 65 km south-west of Boulder. They settled in one of the 155 rooms at the historic Stanley Hotel. As it turned out, that night - one of the last of the season - they were the only guests at this hotel.
While the writer walked along empty corridors, dined alone in a huge banquet hall and talked with the bartender, his imagination was played out in earnest. Going to bed, he already knew for sure: he has material for the next book.

“Star Wars” Planet Tatooine - Matmata, Tunisia

Scenes on Tatooine, the home planet of Anakin Skywalker and Luke Skywalker, were filmed around the town of Matmata in Tunisia, actually in the Sahara desert. By the way, it is believed that another Tunisian city located nearby - Tatavin, gave the name to the planet in "Star Wars
Matmata is an amazing attraction of Tunisia, which has preserved the national spirit of the country. The village of Matmata, located near the village of Medenin, attracts tourists, surprising with an extraordinary view of buildings, the likes of which, perhaps, are no longer anywhere in the world.These dwellings are many deep, dug holes in the ground.
According to legend, such semi-underground houses were built - or rather dug out - at a time when Tunisia was a Roman colony.
The Berber tribes that inhabited the country were forced to leave their habitat and live in dug caves. Some of the caves are still inhabited; others serve as museum houses in which local people organize excursions and folklore exhibitions.

City Hobbiton in "The Hobbit" - New Zealand, Matamata.

In "The Hobbit" is almost more computer graphics than in "The Lord of the Rings", but Peter Jackson still took the field shooting in New Zealand. Shir, and in "The Hobbit" and Hobbiton, for example, were built around the city of Matamata. It still stands there - as a tourist attraction.
When Peter Jackson, the director of the famous Lord of the Rings blockbuster, flying over one of the islands of Matamata in New Zealand, saw these places, he immediately realized that they were ideal for the film adaptation of the Hobbit village. Already in March 1999, he began preparing a settlement for the hobbits, to begin shooting by the end of the year!

Hobbiton was built on the territory of a private sheep farm. Its owners are three brothers, two of whom live in the same place, and the third in Matamata is a small town 20 minutes away, located among green, hilly agricultural land.
What Peter Jackson liked most here is the amazing beauty of nature and the absence of a hint of civilization. Thus, the American film company acquired a central piece of the farm and built the city of Hobbiton for the filming of the cult film "The Lord of the Rings".

Beach from “Saving Private Ryan”, Carraklo, Ireland

Could the creators of this epic film to shoot on these beaches of Normandy? Could. But not removed. Instead, they preferred the beach near the village of Carraklo in Ireland. Hollywood captured the village for two months and even for the needs of the film crew there even had a three-phase current.