Karl Bushby's Goliath Expedition is a walk from Punta Arenas, Chile, to his home town of Hull, England, via the Darién Gap, the Bering Strait, Siberia, Mongolia, the Caspian Sea and the English Channel. He started on 1 November 1998 and arrived in Hull on 2 November 2026.
The route follows twelve landmarks of the nearly 28-year journey, from the jungle of Panama to a frozen sea crossing in 2006 and two long swims. Positions are approximate except the start and the Dover beach, since the actual paths are not published stop by stop.
Follow in the footsteps of Jesus through the Holy Land: from the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth to the Jordan baptism site, Capernaum, the Sea of Galilee shore, Jericho, Gethsemane and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
The Gospels name many places but rarely fix a spot, so most stops here rest on tradition. Each is labelled as exact, approximate or speculative, with what archaeology can and cannot show.
The Mistress of the Copper Mountain lives in the Gumeshevsky mine in Polevskoy, in the Urals, and Pavel Bazhov wrote her tales in Yekaterinburg after hearing them as a boy on Dumnaya Gora. Her story, from The Malachite Box (1939), is told here with Azov-gora and the Stone Flower town.
The route runs from Bazhov's birthplace in Sysert through the Polevskoy hills where the legends were told to the Yekaterinburg house where he wrote them down.
William Tell's legend is set around Lake Lucerne in central Switzerland: his home village Bürglen, the Rütli meadow, the marketplace of Altdorf where he shot the apple, the Tellsplatte where he leaped from the boat, and the Hohle Gasse near Küssnacht where Gessler was killed.
The route follows the story as the chronicler Tschudi and Schiller's play tell it. The legend is not documented history, and every stop is a traditional identification, but each place is real and can be visited.
Commissaire Dupin is set in Brittany: Jean-Luc Bannalec's detective, a Paris policeman transferred to Concarneau, solves murders in Pont-Aven, on the Glénan islands and in the Guérande salt marshes.
This route follows the first three novels, Bretonische Verhältnisse, Bretonische Brandung and Bretonisches Gold, then looks at how the TV series borrows other places such as Saint-Malo. Settings in the story are partly invented.
In Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a retired man walks from Kingsbridge in Devon to Berwick-upon-Tweed, passing Stroud, Cheltenham, Coventry and the Scottish border town of Kelso to reach a dying friend.
The route follows the walk stage by stage, from a post box in Devon to the hospice at the far end of England, and the reasons Harold gives, and withholds, for going. The novel names towns rather than streets, so every pin marks a town.
The Red and the Black is set in Franche-Comté: Julien Sorel grows up in the fictional town of Verrières, studies at the seminary in Besançon, and meets his end after a church shooting based on a real 1827 crime near Grenoble.
The route follows Julien from Verrières-de-Joux, the village that may have lent its name, through Besançon's citadel, seminary and cathedral, to Brangues and Place Grenette, where the real Antoine Berthet who inspired the novel was tried and executed.
Tintin's Brussels is the Marolles flea market where he buys the Unicorn, the Etterbeek street where Hergé was born, and the museums that keep his work: the Belgian Comic Strip Center, the Hergé Museum in Louvain-la-Neuve and the Moon rocket at Brussels Airport.
Hergé was born in Brussels, and the city shows up in his books and in the places that celebrate them. This route follows five real places from his birth in 1907 to the Tintin sights you can visit today.
The Unicorn flea-market scene is set in the Marolles; other stops are Tintin landmarks rather than story scenes.
Jules Verne's In Search of the Castaways (Captain Grant's Children) follows the 37th parallel south from Dumbarton in Scotland to Talcahuano in Chile, Tristan da Cunha, Amsterdam Island, the Snowy River in Australia and Lake Taupo in New Zealand.
This route follows Lord Glenarvan's yacht Duncan and the search for Captain Grant, ending on Tabor Island. Most pins are approximate, since the book gives a latitude and a landscape rather than street addresses.
Parthenope (2024), Sorrentino's film, was shot in Naples and on Capri: Villa Lauro in Posillipo, the Galleria Umberto I, Federico II University, the Gardens of Augustus, Spaccanapoli, Naples Cathedral and Via Partenope. It follows a woman named after her city from her birth in 1950 to 2023.
The route runs in story order, from the sea at Posillipo to the seafront where the film ends.
Matteo Garrone's Tale of Tales (Il racconto dei racconti, 2015) was shot entirely in Italy: Castel del Monte in Apulia, Donnafugata Castle in Sicily, Sammezzano Castle in Tuscany, Roccascalegna in Abruzzo and the Alcantara Gorge all play fairy-tale kingdoms.
The route follows the film's three tales through eight real locations, from the gorge where the sea dragon lives to the tuff lanes where an ogre chases a runaway princess. Several castles are used only for exteriors or interiors, and the notes say which.
The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto) is set in Recife during the 1977 carnival and was filmed on location in the city: Rua da Aurora, the Cinema São Luiz, the Capibaribe River and Parque 13 de Maio, plus the Federal University of Pernambuco campus. Director Kleber Mendonça Filho follows Armando, a former professor on the run in the Brazilian military dictatorship.
The route walks the film's carnival week, from the parade street to the shark, the cinema and the park where the Hairy Leg legend, based on real newspaper reports, takes hold.
Rabo de Peixe, the Netflix series known as Turn of the Tide, is set in a fishing village on São Miguel in the Azores, but it was shot in several places across the island: Porto Formoso, the Arnel lighthouse, Furnas and the ruined Monte Palace Hotel above Sete Cidades.
The story is loosely based on a real 2001 cocaine landing. The route follows the series from the village to its final scenes, with a note on what you can visit today.
1883 is set on the Dutton family's wagon journey from Fort Worth, Texas, to Montana, and its town scenes were filmed on Exchange Avenue in the Fort Worth Stockyards, with the Dutton ranch at Chief Joseph Ranch in Darby.
The route follows the story from the Pinkerton office and Hotel Calhoun in Fort Worth through Doan's Crossing on the Red River to the Montana valley where the Duttons settle. Filming locations are marked where the sources name them; Doan's Crossing is the story's place, not a set.
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir is set in Paris, and the real places behind it are the Eiffel Tower, the Place des Vosges, a bakery on Rue Caulaincourt, the Lycée Carnot, the Plaza Athénée and the Parc des Princes.
The series mixes real monuments with places it renames or reshapes. This route follows six places, from the tower on the skyline to the real bakery behind Marinette's family shop.
Several places are inspirations rather than filming sites, so each one says what the show changed.
Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo is set in West Berlin and filmed around Bahnhof Zoo, Kurfürstenstraße and the Deutschlandhalle, with the heroine's home in Gropiusstadt. It is based on the 1978 book Zoo Station.
Uli Edel's 1981 film follows 13-year-old Christiane Felscherinow from a high-rise in Gropiusstadt through a Bowie concert to the station's underpasses. The route visits the five places the film and the book make famous, in story order, and says plainly where the pins are only the area.
Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl, the Munich kobold series, was filmed at Widenmayerstraße 2 in the Lehel, outside Zum Huterer in Haidhausen and at Tierpark Hellabrunn.
This route follows six places where scenes were shot, from the demolished workshop courtyard to the Kabelsteg footbridge and the zoo. The pub's pin marks its street, not its door.
Die Rosenheim-Cops is set in Rosenheim and the Chiemgau, but the town hall, Max-Josefs-Platz, the Chiemsee, Weyarn and Dietramszell are only part of where it was shot.
This route follows seven places where the crime series was set or filmed, from the police headquarters in Rosenheim's town hall to villas near Lake Starnberg. Several stops are marked by area, because the sources name the place but not the exact spot.
The Black Forest Clinic (Die Schwarzwaldklinik) was filmed at the Carlsbau in Glottertal, with the Brinkmann house in Grafenhausen and the town scenes in Schiltach.
The route follows the series' exteriors from the clinic building through Schluchsee, Triberg, Freiburg and Konstanz. Interiors were shot at Studio Hamburg, and the series stitches distant places into one fictional town.
Der Bergdoktor is filmed in Tyrol, in the villages of Ellmau, Going, Scheffau and Söll below the Wilder Kaiser mountains, plus the hospital in Schwaz.
The doctor series follows Dr. Martin Gruber through a mountain village. The route walks the real places behind it: the practice farm, the family farm, the village inn, the lake, the studio clinic and the hospital that stands in for Klinik Hall. Visiting seasons vary.
Un passo dal cielo, the Rai 1 series, is set in San Candido in South Tyrol and later in San Vito di Cadore in the Belluno Dolomites, but it was mostly filmed around Lago di Braies, Prato Piazza, Dobbiaco, Lago di Mosigo and Misurina.
This route follows the series from its South Tyrol seasons to its Cadore seasons, with eight places where scenes were set or shot. Where the sources only name a place, the pin marks the area.
The Winnetou films of the 1960s are set in the Wild West but were shot in Croatia: the Silver Lake is Plitvice, the Apache pueblo stood above the Zrmanja canyon and Santa Fe is the town of Trogir.
This route follows three of the films (Der Schatz im Silbersee, Winnetou 1 and Winnetou 3, 1962 to 1965) from Plitvice and Paklenica to the Krka falls, Trogir and Mali Alan, where Winnetou dies. Most sets were torn down after filming, but the landscapes remain.
A Good Year is set in Provence and London, and was filmed at Château La Canorgue in Bonnieux, in Gordes and at the village pond of Cucuron, with Broadgate and the Criterion Restaurant standing in for London.
Max, a London trader, inherits his uncle's Luberon vineyard and falls for a local café owner. The route follows him from the City to the estate, the café and the candlelit dinner by the water.
The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza) was filmed in Rome, from the Fontana dell'Acqua Paola on the Janiculum and Palazzo Sacchetti on Via Giulia to Santa Maria del Priorato on the Aventine, Villa Medici and the Verano Cemetery, with a last scene on Giglio Island.
Shooting began on 9 August 2012 and lasted about eight weeks. This route follows Jep Gambardella's story through seven of those places, and says where you can still go.
Jean de Florette was filmed around Riboux, Mirabeau and Vaugines, with market scenes in Sommières, for Claude Berri's 1986 adaptation of the Provence story.
The film follows Ugolin and his uncle Papet, who plug a spring to take over a neighbour's land, and the newcomer Jean de Florette, who farms without knowing it. The route runs from the farm of Les Romarins to the village church and bench; some stops are stand-ins for the story's places.
Il Postino (1994) was filmed on two islands: Procida in the Gulf of Naples, where Mario delivers Pablo Neruda's mail around Marina Corricella, Via San Rocco and Piazza dei Martiri, and Salina in the Aeolian Islands, whose Pollara bay hosts Neruda's house and a beach.
The film moves the story to Italy around 1950 and never names the island. This route follows the real places: the waterfront bar where Mario meets Beatrice, the village street, the post office square and the two beaches.
Three Wishes for Cinderella (Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel, 1973) was shot at Moritzburg Castle near Dresden and Švihov Castle in Bohemia, and the 2021 Norwegian remake at Trakai in Lithuania and Maihaugen in Lillehammer.
The route follows the winter film from the Bohemian forests and the Babelsberg ballroom set to the Moritzburg stairs, then to the remake's locations.
Welcome to the Sticks (Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis) is set in Bergues, near Dunkirk, and filmed there, with scenes in Lille, Lens, Malo-les-Bains and Bruay-la-Buissière.
A post-office manager from the south is sent north for two years and finds the warmest welcome of his life. The route follows the film from the café where Philippe crashes his bike to the belfry where the love story ends.
La Grande Vadrouille (1966) is set in occupied France and filmed at the Paris Opéra, the Grande Mosquée de Paris, the Hospices de Beaune, Meursault and villages of Burgundy. It follows British airmen and two civilians from Paris to the demarcation line.
This route follows the film's chase from the capital's baths and opera into Burgundy, using the real locations where Gérard Oury shot the scenes. Several stops can be visited; scenes set in one village were sometimes shot in another.
Les Visiteurs (1993) was filmed in Carcassonne, Thoiry, Ermenonville, Argenteuil and Vigny: the Château Comtal in the Cité de Carcassonne is the medieval castle, and the Château d'Ermenonville is Montmirail in the present day.
The route follows a 12th-century knight and his squire from 1123 to 1992, across five film locations, and notes where the film and the places differ.
