Jules Verne's novel sends Dr. Samuel Ferguson across Africa in a balloon filled with hydrogen, from Zanzibar past Lake Victoria, Lake Chad and Timbuktu to the Senegal River and Saint-Louis.
The route follows seven places from the book in order, from the departure port to the Nile source, the desert crossing and the falls of Gouina where the Victoria is lost. Verne's Africa is a nineteenth-century view, and the novel's pins are broad: most marks are areas, not exact spots.
Natsume Sōseki's Botchan is set in Matsuyama on Shikoku: its hero lands at the harbour, rides a tiny train into town and bathes daily at Dōgo Onsen.
The route follows the young Tokyo teacher from the harbour and the toy train to the school, the bathhouse and the castle during his short, eventful stay in Matsuyama.
Zombie Land Saga is set across Saga Prefecture, from a mansion modelled on a real Karatsu building and Saga Castle to the hot springs of Ureshino and the Alpino hall in Karatsu.
In the anime, seven legendary girls from different eras are revived as zombies to form an idol group and revive Saga. This route follows their gigs and haunts, with the real venues behind them. Some places are fictional or only approximate, as noted.
Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev follows a medieval icon painter through the Russia of 1400–1424, and its key scenes were shot around Vladimir and Suzdal, from the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl to the Dormition Cathedral.
The route also visits the Izborsk Fortress, where the Vladimir raid was filmed, plus the Andronikov Monastery in Moscow, where the story starts and ends, and the Trinity Lavra, home of Rublev's most famous icon, which the film shows in its colour epilogue. Some stops are filming spots rather than named story places.
La comedia de los años noventa «Mr. Bean» se rodó por Londres, Sussex y la costa sur: la calle de Surbiton que hizo de su piso, la iglesia de Stanmer, la playa de Peacehaven, el parque Battersea y el muelle Clarence. En pantalla vive en el piso 2 del 12 de Arbour Road, en Highbury; la puerta de entrada se filmó en Surbiton.
La ruta sigue los episodios desde el piloto de 1990 hasta el sketch del golf de 1995: ocho paradas que pasan por una escultura de Henry Moore, un mercado de Kingston, una habitación de hotel de Southsea y una pelota de golf desbocada. La mayoría son lugares públicos; la casa de Surbiton es una vivienda privada, así que hay que verla desde la calle.
«La vuelta al mundo en 80 días» de Michael Palin (BBC, 1988) siguió a Phileas Fogg sin aviones, del Reform Club de Londres a Venecia, las pirámides, Dubái, Hong Kong y Aspen. Duró del 25 de septiembre al 12 de diciembre y terminó ante una puerta cerrada en Pall Mall.
La ruta recorre nueve momentos tomados de sus propios pies de foto día a día y de extractos de su diario: Venecia, las pirámides, un dhow de Dubái a Bombay, Hong Kong, un tren a Shanghái, el Pacífico, un globo en Aspen y una puerta cerrada en Pall Mall. Los marcadores señalan ciudades y lugares emblemáticos; la línea real del viaje discurría entre ellos.
