Catalog
Elvis Presley's story runs from his birthplace in Tupelo, Mississippi, to Humes High School, Beale Street, Sun Studio, the Overton Park Shell and Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. The route follows him from a shotgun house in 1935 to the 1954 recording session and first paid concert that launched him, and the mansion he bought in 1957. Most stops can still be visited.
Beatles places in Liverpool and London: the church hall in Woolton where Lennon met McCartney, Penny Lane, Strawberry Field, the Cavern Club, the Savile Row rooftop and the Abbey Road zebra crossing. The route follows the band from 1957 to 1969 in seven stops, from McCartney's family home in Allerton to the last public concert on a London roof and the cover photo of Abbey Road. Most stops can still be visited.
Tchaikovsky's life runs from his birthplace in Votkinsk through the School of Jurisprudence, the Saint Petersburg and Moscow conservatories, the Mariinsky Theatre and his house in Klin to his grave in Tikhvin Cemetery. Most of these places can still be visited. The route follows the composer from his birth on 7 May 1840 to his death on 6 November 1893: childhood in Udmurtia, a civil-service training he gave up, music school, two opera premieres and the last symphony. The cause of his death is still debated, and the final stop says so.
Wyatt Earp's lawman years run from the cattle towns of Wichita and Dodge City, Kansas, to Tombstone, Arizona, where the gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place in 1881. Earp wore a badge in Kansas, then followed his brothers to a silver boomtown. This route follows him from his first police job to the shootout, his brother Morgan's murder and the vendetta ride through Tucson, ending at his grave in Colma, California. The real gunfight was not at the corral at all, and the stops say where it actually happened.
The Battle of Britain was fought over south-east England in 1940, and its places are still there: Dover, RAF Biggin Hill, RAF Kenley, RAF Hornchurch, RAF Tangmere and the underground Uxbridge bunker. The route follows the summer of 1940 from the Dunkirk headquarters at Dover Castle through the Kent and Sussex fighter fields, which were bombed in August, to the operations room where Churchill watched 15 September. Many sites are now museums, parks or airports.
Pearl Harbor and Midway tell the Pacific war's first six months: the Japanese attack on Battleship Row and the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii on 7 December 1941, then the naval battle at Midway Atoll in June 1942 that sank four Japanese carriers. The route runs from Ford Island and Hickam Field to the codebreakers of Station HYPO, the fighting at Midway and the wreck of USS Yorktown on the seabed. Pearl Harbor stops can be visited; Midway Atoll is remote and the Yorktown wreck lies on the deep seabed.
The Underground Railroad's northern routes ran from Maryland's Eastern Shore through Wilmington and the Ohio River towns to Niagara Falls and Dresden, Ontario. This route follows seven real places linked to it, from Harriet Tubman's escape to the Dawn settlement. It joins Harriet Tubman's park in Maryland, Thomas Garrett's Wilmington, the Rankin and Levi Coffin houses, the Freedom Center in Cincinnati, the Niagara bridge and the Dawn settlement. The stops follow the geography, not one person's single journey.
Boston's Freedom Trail is a 2.5-mile walking route past 16 sites of the American Revolution, from the State House and Old South Meeting House to Paul Revere's House, Old North Church and Bunker Hill. This route covers nine stops in order: the Massachusetts State House, the Granary Burying Ground, the Tea Party meeting house, the Old State House, Faneuil Hall, Revere's home, the lanterns of Old North Church, USS Constitution and the Bunker Hill Monument.
Hegra (Mada'in Salih) in Saudi Arabia was the Nabataean kingdom's second capital after Petra in Jordan, and the rock-cut tombs of both cities come from the same 1st-century world. This route follows the Nabataean caravan network from the Hegra tombs through Humeima and Little Petra to the Treasury and Monastery in Petra, and ends at Avdat on the Petra-Gaza road in the Negev.
Jamestown to Yorktown is the best-known stretch of Virginia's early American history: from the 1607 James Fort at Historic Jamestowne, via the Capitol in Williamsburg and St. John's Church in Richmond, to the Moore House and surrender field at Yorktown. The route follows 174 years from England's first lasting colony to Cornwallis's surrender in 1781, with Patrick Henry's speeches along the way. Most stops can be visited; the Williamsburg Capitol is a reconstruction.
The Spartacus revolt began at a gladiator school in Capua, climbed Mount Vesuvius, ran south to the Strait of Messina and ended on the Sele River in 71 BC. It was the Third Servile War, the largest slave uprising Rome ever faced. The route follows the rebellion in order: the breakout of 73 BC, the siege on Vesuvius, the failed attempt to cross to Sicily, the last battle against Crassus and the crucifixions along the Appian Way. Ancient sources were written a century or more later and disagree in places, so the exact spots of the school and the battlefield are approximate.
Heart of Darkness is set in the Congo Free State, a Belgian company's territory, and this route follows Marlow from Brussels to Boma, Matadi, the Livingstone Falls rapids and Kinshasa, then on to Kurtz's station upriver. Conrad's novella names almost none of its places, so most stops are marked as likely identifications, drawn from Conrad's own job on the Congo River.
Holden Caulfield's weekend in The Catcher in the Rye runs from a Pennsylvania boarding school to Grand Central Terminal, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Central Park Zoo and the Central Park Carousel in New York City. The route follows Holden's escape from Pencey Prep and ends with his sister Phoebe on the carousel. The museum, zoo and carousel can all be visited; Pencey is invented, and the pin marks the real school Salinger may have used as its model.
Sirāt, Óliver Laxe's 2025 road film, is set in southern Morocco but opens at a Spanish rave: the Rambla de Barrachina near Teruel stands in for the desert, while the mountain road, the white sand and the train were shot near Errachidia and Erfoud. The route follows the father Luis and his son Esteban as they chase a missing daughter and join a convoy of ravers. Each stop is a place in the film's region, not a precise pin: the director names the area, rarely the exact spot.
Heated Rivalry was filmed in Ontario: Hamilton (McMaster University, Dundurn Castle, FirstOntario Concert Hall), the Sleeman Centre in Guelph, and Muskoka, with Montreal landmarks in establishing shots. The route follows the Crave series across seven places, from Shane and Ilya's first meeting on a Hamilton campus to the cottage finale. Most are visitable; the Muskoka pin is only an area.
KPop Demon Hunters is set in Seoul, and several real places appear on screen: Seoul Olympic Stadium in the opening scene, Jayang Station on Line 7, Namsan Seoul Tower, Naksan Park and Bukchon Hanok Village. It is an animated film, so these are places it shows rather than filming sites. The route follows five of them, with what each is like to visit today.
Bluey is set in Brisbane, Queensland: the show draws on Queen Street Mall, South Bank and the city's Queenslander houses, with a trip to the Big Pelican on the Noosa River. The route follows the series from Ludo Studio in Fortitude Valley to the real places it draws, ending at Bluey's World in Hamilton. The Heeler house is fictional, so it is not pinned.
Blade Runner's 2019 Los Angeles was filmed at the Bradbury Building, the Ennis House, Union Station, the 2nd Street Tunnel and a Warner Bros. backlot in Burbank. Ridley Scott's 1982 film follows Rick Deckard as he hunts four replicants through a rainswept, neon-lit city. This route follows the story from the police station to the final chase across a rooftop, and shows which real downtown and Los Feliz landmarks stood in for the future. Most sets were dressed heavily for the camera, so expect the buildings, not the neon.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was filmed in Spain: the Tabernas Desert in Almería, then Burgos for the Sad Hill Cemetery, the Arlanza monastery and the bridge battle. Spanish soldiers helped build its sets. The route follows the shoot from the Mini Hollywood set in Almería to the restored Sad Hill graveyard, tying each location to its scene. Some sites are visitable, while the Cortijo del Fraile is a ruin, and the bridge spot is not pinned.
Jeepers Creepers was filmed around Ocala in northern Florida in 2000, with its road scenes shot on SW 180th Avenue Road near Dunnellon. The church, diner, police station and factory were spread across Ocala, Lake Panasoffkee and Reddick. The route follows Trish and Darry from the country road to the church, the diner, the station and the finale. Several of the sites are gone or changed, so the pins are approximate.
30 Rock is set at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan but mostly filmed at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, with Battery Park City and Douglaston standing in for Cleveland and Needmore. The route follows the sitcom from its NBC address and studio, through the Queens soundstages where the sets were built, to the New York neighbourhoods that played other towns, and ends at the cast reunion at Radio City Music Hall.
Steel Magnolias (1989) was filmed in Natchitoches, Louisiana: the Steel Magnolia House on Jefferson Street, St. Augustine Church at Isle Brevelle, Front Street and Cane River Lake, American Cemetery and Beau Jardin. Follow Shelby's wedding day, the Christmas festival, a funeral and an Easter egg hunt through the real streets of the town that played Chinquapin Parish. Pins mark the sites on the town's own film trail, and the private homes on that trail are left out.
Queen Elizabeth I's life runs through Greenwich, the Tower of London, Hatfield, Westminster Abbey, Tilbury Fort and Richmond: where she was born, imprisoned, crowned, made her Armada speech and died. The route follows her from her birth in 1533 to her death in 1603. Some palaces are gone, so three pins mark the nearest surviving site.
The Battle of Trafalgar was fought off Cape Trafalgar in Spain, but Nelson's story runs from Portsmouth and HMS Victory to Gibraltar, Greenwich and St Paul's Cathedral in London. This route follows Nelson's last journey in order: his farewell at Portsmouth in September 1805, the battle on 21 October, the tow to Gibraltar, his lying in state at Greenwich, the funeral at St Paul's, and Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. The Portsmouth and Gibraltar pins are approximate.