Who hasn’t wished they could disappear into the novel they’re reading, or visit the world of their favorite film? People, it’s possible — at least sometimes. When we first heard that we were going to be able to visit a complete Hobbiton next year, we admit that the nerds in us got pretty excited. Not only that, but we started daydreaming about all our favorite fictional locales that we desperately wish we could visit. We’ve already given you a guide to mythical vacations, but now for something slightly more attainable: a list of fictional places you can actually visit in real life, whether because they’ve been created for the purpose or because they’ve actually existed all along. Click through to get a few ideas for your next vacation, and let us know which of these you’d most like to visit in the comments.
Hobbiton
Though the original set of Hobbiton from the Lord of the Rings films has been mostly dismantled and/or left to decay, the set of The Hobbit is being built to last, and will be a permanent, maintained site in Matamata, New Zealand, complete with forty-four hobbit holes, a bridge, and the Green Dragon pub and available to visit in 2012.
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Doctor Who has been filmed in both my old high school and my university. It’s really strange to see them on screen!
How fun! I feel calm and relaxed looking at the photo. Oddly, I also feel a desire for some honey.
You can also go to the very door that Raskolnikov hides behind after he kills the old woman in Crime and Punishment in St. Petersburg.
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/russia/st-petersburg/sights/square-plaza/sennaya-pl
When I was there I did the walk from the location of his apartment all the way up the steps to that door.
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What about Sleepy Hollow? You can visit the Bridge, Old Dutch Church and graveyard from Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Less popular than the others, no doubt, but another fun real-life location: http://www.popeyemalta.com/ (The Popeye village from the flop film)
Seriously? No mention of Juliet’s balcony in Verona? Come on, guys…
On the “cult British TV” theme, there’s also Portmeiron in Wales, which was the set of The Prisoner, and Avoca in Wicklow, which was the setting for “Ballykissangel.”
no Tatooine?
http://goafrica.about.com/b/2007/11/21/star-wars-tours-in-tunisia.htm
No Yavin 4?
http://blog.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/nikolassarah/s.hemisphere07/1189100640/tpod.html
The Count of Monte Cristo and the featured prison at Chateau d’If
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_d%27If
Well worth a visit.
there is also xavier’s school for the gifted from xmen!! its the hatley house in victoria canada. beautiful grounds
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Y’all forgot about Sweethaven! http://www.popeyemalta.com/
You can also go to Chico, CA to see the “Sherwood Forest” of Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood. Our own Bidwell Park was used as the forest.
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