Walden is set at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, where Henry David Thoreau lived from July 1845 to September 1847. This route follows the book from his cabin site to the railroad, Concord's jail, Flint's Pond, Baker Farm and Brister's Hill.
Thoreau compressed his two years into a single calendar year in the book. The stops follow the order of its chapters, and most of the paths and ponds can still be walked around Walden Pond State Reservation. Several spots in the woods are only approximately placed on the map.
Gone Girl is set in the made-up town of North Carthage, Missouri, but David Fincher shot it almost entirely in Cape Girardeau: The Bar on Themis Street, the Common Pleas Courthouse, the old federal building and the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge over the Mississippi.
The route follows Nick Dunne's first days as the husband of a missing woman, from the bar to the press conference, the vigil, the police station and the bridge. One stop, the Drury Lodge, is marked approximately: it has closed and the pin sits on its street.
The moai of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) were carved at Rano Raraku quarry and raised on platforms such as Ahu Tongariki and Ahu Akivi, and the island's legends explain them: a founder who landed at Anakena, seven scouts turned to stone, statues that walked, and a birdman race at Orongo.
The route follows those stories from the landing beach to the quarry, the restored platforms and the cliff village above the sea. Oral traditions are told as traditions, not as proven history.
Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel murders of 1888 happened along a few Whitechapel and Spitalfields streets: Durward Street (then Buck's Row), Hanbury Street, Berner Street, Mitre Square and Miller's Court in Spitalfields. Five killings are generally attributed to the unidentified murderer.
This route follows the canonical victims in date order, with the Goulston Street graffito and the Ten Bells pub. Some sites are gone or renamed, and Miller's Court has no pin.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is set in St. Petersburg, a town based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain grew up: the Boyhood Home, Cardiff Hill and Mark Twain Cave.
Five stops follow the novel from the whitewashed fence to the cave where Tom and Becky Thatcher get lost, on the Mississippi's west bank. Jackson's Island, the pirates' hideaway, has no identified real model, so that stop marks the town and the river.
Zodiac (2007) is set around the San Francisco Bay Area, from Vallejo and Lake Berryessa to Presidio Heights and the San Francisco Chronicle. The film follows the real Zodiac Killer case.
This route walks five places from the film in story order, from the July 1969 attack at Blue Rock Springs Park to the police hunt. Several scenes were shot in Los Angeles, which is noted where it matters.
A Plague Tale: Innocence is set in Aquitaine in 1348, with landscapes inspired by Saint-Émilion, a town gate modelled on Carcassonne and a final cathedral based on Reims. Its sequel, Requiem, moves to Provence and Marseille in 1349.
The route follows Amicia and Hugo de Rune from their family estate through plague-ridden France to the Order's city of Marseille. Most pins are real stand-ins or regions, and each stop says how close the game comes to the real place.
Little Women is set in a Massachusetts town loosely based on Concord, and Louisa May Alcott wrote it at Orchard House, the Alcott family home that is now a museum. Follow the March sisters from Concord to Washington, Nice and Lake Geneva.
The route visits Orchard House and The Wayside, where the Alcott family lived and acted out scenes later used in the book, then follows the story abroad: a Washington hospital, the Promenade des Anglais in Nice and Chillon on Lake Geneva. The Concord stops are the real houses behind the March family's home.
Beverly Hills Cop (1984) is set in Detroit and Beverly Hills, but most of it was shot around Los Angeles: the Biltmore Hotel downtown, Beverly Hills City Hall and the Athenaeum in Pasadena.
Detroit detective Axel Foley travels to California to find the killer of his friend Mikey. The route follows him from the opening chase and his apartment to the hotel, the police station, Maitland's club and the final shootout. Only the Biltmore, City Hall and the Athenaeum are places you can visit.
Company of Heroes is set in Normandy in 1944, from Omaha Beach and Carentan to Cherbourg, Saint-Lô, Mortain and Chambois. Its Able Company missions follow real battles of the Normandy campaign.
The route follows the game's single-player story in order, pairing each mission with what the real fight there looked like. The game simplifies events.
Atlantis comes from two dialogues by Plato, Timaeus and Critias, and searchers have placed it at Santorini, the Strait of Gibraltar, Spartel Bank, Doñana in Spain and the Richat Structure in Mauritania.
This route starts with Plato's own frame in Sais, Egypt, then visits five of the proposed locations. Every pin after the first is a theory, not a find.
The Trail of Tears was the forced removal of the Cherokee from their homeland in the southeastern United States to present-day Oklahoma. This route follows it from the capital at New Echota, Georgia, through Red Clay, Fort Cass and Blythe Ferry in Tennessee to Fort Gibson.
Each stop ties to a documented moment: a treaty signed by a minority, a council that rejected it, the camps of summer 1838, a river crossing and the arrival in Indian Territory. Some sites are memorials today and others are only markers; the Fort Cass and Fort Gibson pins are approximate.
Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is set around 1790 near Tarrytown, New York, and you can visit its places today: Philipsburg Manor, Patriot's Park, the Old Dutch Church and Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
Ichabod rides to a party at the Van Tassel farm, then home through a haunted glen and over a bridge by the church. The route follows his night, with Raven Rock first. Some places are only visitor tradition, and each stop says so.
Pretty Woman is set in Los Angeles, mostly around Hollywood Boulevard, the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, with one night at the San Francisco Opera.
This route follows Vivian and Edward's week in story order, from the Hollywood street where they meet to the opera house. Some scenes were filmed elsewhere, such as the Ambassador Hotel lobby and the Cicada dinner, and the stops say so.
Overwatch (called Overwatch 2 until February 2026) sets maps in real places across Africa and Asia: the Temple of Anubis is on the Giza Plateau near Cairo, Petra is in Jordan, Busan is in South Korea, and Neon Junction is inspired by Tokyo.
This route follows ten maps west to east, from Morocco to Tokyo, with the mode, the date each arrived and the real place behind it. Other routes cover Overwatch maps in Europe and in the Americas. Aatlis has no pin because Blizzard names no city in Morocco; Oasis and Suravasa pin only their country.
Overwatch (called Overwatch 2 until February 2026) sets its American maps in real places: Midtown ends at Grand Central in New York, New Queen Street is Toronto, Havana is in Cuba, Paraíso is Rio de Janeiro and Hollywood is a Los Angeles movie lot.
This route follows seven maps west to east from Hollywood to Rio, including Dorado, a Mexican town whose look came from a photo of Italy. Other routes cover Overwatch maps in Europe and in Africa and Asia. Pins mark a real model place, not a copied district; Dorado and Runasapi have no pin because they are invented towns with no named real place.
Overwatch (called Overwatch 2 until February 2026) sets its European maps in real places: King's Row is a London neighborhood, Circuit Royal is Monte Carlo, Colosseo is Rome, Rialto is Venice and Esperança is inspired by Porto.
This route follows eleven maps west to east, from Grímsvötn in Iceland to Volskaya Industries near St. Petersburg, with the mode, the date each arrived and the real place behind it. Other routes cover Overwatch maps in the Americas and in Africa and Asia. Pins mark a real model place or landmark, not a copied district.
Los mapas de tanques de War Thunder se basan en lugares reales: la Fábrica de Tractores de Stalingrado, Bastogne, el bosque de Hürtgen, la catedral de Colonia, el Reichstag de Berlín, Novorossiysk, Volokolamsk, Breslavia (Wrocław), Darwin Hill en las islas Malvinas y el Fulda Gap.
Los desarrolladores explican cuánto se parece cada mapa a su original, desde fotografías reconstruidas de la fábrica de Stalingrado hasta un trazado solo inspirado en el terreno real. Esta ruta recorre diez de ellos en el orden de su historia, con una breve nota sobre lo que ocurrió en cada lugar real.
Aquí los mapas se clasifican como exactos solo cuando los desarrolladores copian un barrio real; el resto se marca como aproximado.
Look Back transcurre en torno a la ciudad natal del dibujante de manga Tatsuki Fujimoto, Nikaho, en la prefectura de Akita, y la película de acción real de 2026 se rodó sobre todo allí, desde la avenida de cerezos de Kunpuen hasta la estación de Nikaho. La historia sigue a Fujino y Kyomoto, dos chicas que dibujan manga juntas. En junio de 2024 se estrenó como película de animación.
La ruta sigue la historia desde los paseos de infancia de Fujino por Nikaho y la librería de Hirasawa hasta los decorados reconstruidos de las habitaciones en la estación y en el centro Smile, y de ahí a la universidad de arte de Yamagata donde la historia da un giro.
Los siete samuráis se rodó en los estudios Toho de Tokio y en Shizuoka y Hakone, porque ningún lugar por sí solo podía cubrir todo el terreno.
La película de Kurosawa de 1954 tiene una sola aldea de montaña, pero se montó con piezas de lugares distintos: los arrozales de estudio de Setagaya, un valle sobre el túnel de Tanna, el emplazamiento de un molino en Izu, una cascada en Shizuoka y un paso de montaña en Hakone.
Las paradas son aproximadas porque la aldea de la pantalla nunca existió como un único lugar.
Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi) nació en Shikoku, estudió en Xi'an y fundó el budismo Shingon en Jingo-ji, Tō-ji y el monte Koya, donde reposa en Okunoin.
La ruta sigue al monje desde su lugar de nacimiento, en Zentsū-ji, hasta el templo Qinglong, en la China de los Tang, y de vuelta a los templos cercanos a Kioto y al retiro de montaña que pidió en 816. Termina en su mausoleo, donde los monjes todavía le llevan comidas.
¿Dónde estaba Yamatai, el reino de la reina Himiko? Las dos respuestas principales son Yoshinogari, en Saga, al norte de Kyushu, y Makimuku, junto al túmulo Hashihaka Kofun, en Sakurai, Nara.
La ruta sigue el relato del Wei Zhi sobre Himiko desde la isla de Iki y el sello de oro de Shikanoshima hasta los dos yacimientos rivales, y termina en el túmulo funerario que a menudo se vincula con su tumba. La ubicación de Yamatai sigue sin resolverse.
El Gran Buda de Nara, en el Todai-ji, fue obra del emperador Shomu, que también ordenó levantar un templo en cada provincia y trasladó su capital del palacio de Heijo a Kuni-kyo y a Shigaraki.
Tras la viruela, una rebelión y las malas cosechas, Shomu buscó protección en el budismo. Esta ruta lo sigue desde Nara, pasando por dos capitales efímeras y un templo provincial del actual Tokio, hasta la Ceremonia de Apertura de los Ojos del año 752. Algunos lugares son solo ruinas o siguen siendo aproximados.
Los templos del príncipe Shōtoku en Japón van de Tachibana-dera y Asuka-dera, en Asuka, a Hōryū-ji y Chūgū-ji, en Ikaruga, además de Shitennō-ji, en Osaka.
La ruta sigue al regente que promovió el budismo, desde el lugar donde se dice que nació hasta el solar de su palacio en Ikaruga y el bordado hecho tras su muerte en 622. Varias fechas se basan en la tradición de los templos y no en registros firmes, y el lugar de nacimiento figura como tradicional.
