The First Crusade (1096-1099) ran from Clermont in France through Constantinople, Nicaea and Antioch to Jerusalem, and this route follows it stop by stop. It began with Pope Urban II's sermon at Clermont on 27 November 1095.
The six stops cover the sermon, the oaths sworn to the Byzantine emperor in Constantinople, the sieges of Nicaea and Antioch, the battle at Dorylaeum and the fall of Jerusalem in July 1099. Violence is named plainly; the medieval accounts are partly written after the fact.
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.
Anne Frank wrote her diary in the Secret Annex at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam, within sight of the Westerkerk tower. The route starts at the family's flat on the Merwedeplein, where she got the diary on her thirteenth birthday in 1942.
It follows the family from the Annex through the arrest of 4 August 1944 to Westerbork, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen, where Anne died in early 1945.
East of Eden is set in California's Salinas Valley, mostly between the start of the twentieth century and the end of World War I, and its places are Salinas, King City and the farmland between them. The 1955 James Dean film moved the story to Monterey on screen but was shot largely in Mendocino, with scenes in Spreckels and the valley.
This route follows John Steinbeck's novel through the valley, Kate's town of Salinas and the film's locations, so you can see where the story and the screen version happen.
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.
Seventeen Moments of Spring is set in Berlin and Bern in 1945, but it was filmed mostly elsewhere: Arkhangelskoye-Tyurikovo park and Butyrka prison in Moscow, Jauniela in Old Riga, and the Saxon towns of Hohnstein and Meissen, plus the Berlin inn Zur letzten Instanz.
The route follows these real sites in the order of the Soviet spy series, from the Bavarian forest to Bern's Flower Street, and shows how Moscow and Riga stood in for wartime Germany and Switzerland.
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.
Dexter is set in Miami, but only part of it was filmed there: Ocean Drive in South Beach and the waters off Virginia Key are real Miami, while Long Beach, California, plays much of the rest.
The route follows the Showtime series from the pilot's Miami street scenes to Long Beach's Villa Riviera and university campus, and ends at Ontario International Airport for the finale.
The Wire was set and filmed in Baltimore: the Ritz Cabaret in Fells Point, East Baltimore's Middle East, Locust Point, Greenmount West and Camden Yards all appear on screen.
The HBO series by David Simon ran for five seasons from 2002 to 2008. This route follows five places from the first-season pilot to the school storyline of season 4. Most pins are neighborhoods, not single doors.
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.
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.
Boyz n the Hood was filmed in the South Central Los Angeles neighbourhoods where director John Singleton grew up: Inglewood's Woodworth Avenue, Cimarron Street in Park Mesa Heights, and Crenshaw Boulevard. This route follows Tre Styles from his 1984 childhood to the fatal night in 1991.
Singleton wrote the film from his own life and shot it in sequence from October 1990. The route covers six stops, from the school and the Styles house to Crenshaw High School and the boulevard's restaurant. Several stops are private homes, so check the pin precision.
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.
Zombieland (2009) is set across America, from Texas to Los Angeles, but it was shot almost entirely in Georgia: downtown Atlanta, Powder Springs, Decatur, Newnan and the Wild Adventures theme park in Valdosta, with a few days in Hollywood.
The route follows Columbus and Tallahassee in story order, from the first streets of chaos to the Pacific Playland finale. Several stops are only approximate because the sources name a street or town, not an exact spot.
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.
Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds is set in Brooklyn, New Jersey and Boston, but it was filmed in Newark, Bayonne, Athens on the Hudson, Lexington, Virginia, and Naugatuck, Connecticut. Ray Ferrier tries to get his children to their mother as alien tripods rise around them.
The route follows the film's flight in story order and shows where each scene was actually shot, from the first tripod to the final reunion. Several stops are film stand-ins, so pins mark towns rather than exact addresses.
Napoleon Dynamite is set and was filmed in Preston, Idaho, from Preston High School and the Deseret Industries thrift shop to a chicken farm in Franklin and Lamont Reservoir.
Director Jared Hess shot his 2004 comedy in July 2003 in the town where he grew up. This route follows Napoleon, Kip and Uncle Rico through six places, from the school gym to the wedding. Some scenes were shot elsewhere in Idaho, and the guide gives only street-level addresses for a few spots.
Attila the Hun's campaigns run from Margus and Viminacium on the Danube to Orléans, the Catalaunian Plains in France and Aquileia in Italy. This route follows the Hun king from the 435 treaty to his 452 meeting with Pope Leo I.
Six stops trace his rise as ruler of the Huns, the sack of Danube cities, the check in Gaul and the invasion of Italy. Several battle sites are approximate or disputed, and the pins say so.
Kindergarten Cop (1990) is set in a small Oregon town and was filmed in Astoria, with the school picnic at Ecola State Park and the opening scene at a Santa Ana mall.
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays LAPD detective John Kimble, who goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to find a drug lord's ex-wife and son. This route follows five places: the opening mall, downtown Commercial Street, the school, the picnic park and the house street. Some places are private or only approximate.
Richard the Lionheart's Third Crusade and captivity run from Limassol and Acre to Arsuf, Dürnstein Castle, Trifels Castle and Château Gaillard in Normandy.
The king of England took Cyprus in 1191 and reached Acre, then won at Arsuf. On the way home he was captured and held for ransom, and later built Château Gaillard above the Seine. The Cyprus wedding is only a tradition.
The Chronicles of Narnia began in C. S. Lewis's Belfast and Oxford, and the films were shot in New Zealand, Slovenia and Queensland. This route runs from the Digory statue at the Holywood Arches to The Kilns, the Eagle and Child pub, Elephant Rocks, Bovec and Cleveland Point.
Three stops follow the author: his birthplace, the Oxford house where he wrote every Narnia book, and the pub where he handed round the proofs of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Three follow the cameras, one for each film. Film sites are marked as the places where scenes were shot, not as Narnia itself.
Tamerlane (Timur) was born near Shahrisabz and buried in Samarkand, and in between he built palaces, mosques and tombs from Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan, and fought the Ottomans at Ankara.
The route follows his reign from his family's tombs at Shah-i-Zinda in 1372 to his own at Gur-e-Amir, with stops at the Ak-Saray Palace, the Yasawi Mausoleum, the Battle of Ankara and the Bibi-Khanym Mosque.
