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.
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.
En abril de 1947, el noruego Thor Heyerdahl y cinco compañeros zarparon de Perú en una balsa de nueve troncos de balsa, construida al estilo de los viejos dibujos españoles de las balsas sudamericanas. Querían demostrar que los pueblos antiguos pudieron ir a la deriva desde Sudamérica hasta la Polinesia. Tras 101 días y casi 7000 kilómetros en pleno Pacífico, se estrellaron contra un arrecife de coral de las Tuamotu, y los seis llegaron a tierra a pie.
La travesía dio lugar a un libro superventas y a un documental ganador del Óscar. La teoría de Heyerdahl, sin embargo, no ha resistido: la arqueología, la lingüística y la genética muestran que los polinesios llegaron desde el oeste, desde el Sudeste Asiático insular, como grandes navegantes. La ruta sigue a la balsa desde El Callao hasta Tahití.
Vermeer's Delft is a short walk through the Dutch city where Johannes Vermeer was baptized, painted and was buried. The route runs from the Nieuwe Kerk and the Vermeer Centre to the Paardenmarkt, the Vlamingstraat of The Little Street, a view of the skyline from the south, and the Oude Kerk.
The stops follow his life, from baptism in 1632 and the guild in 1653 to the 1654 explosion and his burial in 1675. The exact site of The Little Street is still debated.
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 Mayflower's 1620 voyage runs from Scrooby in Nottinghamshire and Leiden in the Netherlands through Southampton, Dartmouth and Plymouth, England, to Provincetown and Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts.
The Pilgrims were English Separatists who left home for the Netherlands, then sailed for America in two ships. One, the Speedwell, kept leaking, so they crowded onto the Mayflower alone and finally sailed from Plymouth in September 1620, bound for Virginia.
This route follows them stop by stop, from the manor where their church met to the rock tradition names as their landing place. Plymouth Rock is a tradition, not a documented spot, and the stop says so.
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.
Pompeii is the Roman city near Naples buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, and this walking tour goes from its Amphitheatre and the Forum's Temple of Apollo to the House of the Faun, the Lupanar and the Garden of the Fugitives.
The route covers the town in its last years: a brawl in the arena in AD 59, the earthquake of 62, a rebuilt town, and the two days of the eruption itself. All six places can be visited today inside the Pompeii archaeological park.
La bola negra (The Black Ball), the 2026 film by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, was shot in Granada, Sierra Nevada, Castil de Carrias, Sigüenza, Madrid, Athens and Comillas. It follows three timelines inspired by Federico García Lorca's unfinished play.
The route runs through the 1932, 1937 and 2017 storylines. The film does not name most of its settings, so most pins mark the listed filming locations.
«The Wire» (Bajo escucha) está ambientada y se rodó en Baltimore: el Ritz Cabaret de Fells Point, el barrio Middle East del este de Baltimore, Locust Point, Greenmount West y Camden Yards aparecen en pantalla.
La serie de HBO de David Simon duró cinco temporadas, de 2002 a 2008. Esta ruta recorre cinco lugares, desde el piloto de la primera temporada hasta la trama escolar de la temporada 4. La mayoría de los marcadores señalan barrios, no puertas concretas.
«Heated Rivalry» se rodó en Ontario: en Hamilton (Universidad McMaster, castillo de Dundurn, FirstOntario Concert Hall), en el Sleeman Centre de Guelph y en Muskoka, con monumentos de Montreal en los planos de situación.
La ruta sigue la serie de Crave a lo largo de siete lugares, desde el primer encuentro de Shane e Ilya en un campus de Hamilton hasta el final en la cabaña. Casi todos se pueden visitar; el marcador de Muskoka solo señala una zona.
«Magnolias de acero» (1989) se rodó en Natchitoches, Luisiana: la Steel Magnolia House de Jefferson Street, la iglesia de St. Augustine en Isle Brevelle, Front Street y el lago Cane River, el cementerio American Cemetery y Beau Jardin.
Sigan el día de la boda de Shelby, el festival de Navidad, un funeral y una búsqueda de huevos de Pascua por las calles reales del pueblo que hizo de parroquia de Chinquapin. Los marcadores señalan los lugares de la ruta cinematográfica del propio pueblo; las casas particulares de esa ruta se han dejado fuera.
Suleiman the Magnificent's campaigns run from Belgrade Fortress to Mohács, Vienna and Szigetvár, with the Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul as his monument.
The route follows the sultan through the sieges and battles of 1521–1566, from the fall of Belgrade and the battle of Mohács to the failed siege of Vienna in 1529 and his death during the siege of Szigetvár. The Mohács pin marks the town, not the battlefield itself.
Top Gun (1986) is set at Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego and was filmed there, in Oceanside, at Kansas City Barbeque and at NAS Fallon in Nevada.
This route follows Maverick and Goose from the Miramar flight line to Charlie's house in Oceanside, the piano bar where they sing "Great Balls of Fire", the Nevada skies of the dogfights and North Island, where the sequel Top Gun: Maverick puts its school. Miramar, Fallon and North Island are active military bases.
Battlefield V sends you to Narvik in Norway, Tobruk in Libya, Kasserine Pass in Tunisia, Rjukan in Norway and the Nijmegen railway bridge in the Netherlands, all real places of the war.
The game's prologue jumps between fronts, and the "Nordlys" war story follows a Norwegian resistance fight over heavy water. This route lines up those settings with the real history of each place. Only the places named in the game's own plot summary are included.
Call of Duty: Black Ops sends CIA operative Alex Mason from the Bay of Pigs in Cuba to the Vorkuta gulag, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Huế in Vietnam and Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong.
Mason's story is told in flashbacks from an interrogation room, in order, from April 1961 to 1968. This route follows seven real places behind the campaign, and what happened at each one in real history. The game's levels are fiction, so most pins are approximate. Spoiler notice: the last stop reveals the campaign's twist.
The Roswell UFO incident of July 1947 began on a ranch near Corona, New Mexico, and ran through Roswell Army Air Field, Fort Worth and Wright Field in Ohio. The official explanation was a Project Mogul balloon.
This route follows the debris from the Alamogordo balloon launch to the Hangar 18 legend and the International UFO Museum in Roswell. Several stops are approximate, because the sources do not name exact spots.
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.
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.
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.
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.
La batalla de Iwo Jima se libró en febrero y marzo de 1945 en una pequeña isla volcánica del grupo de Ogasawara, en Japón, desde las playas de arena negra del desembarco hasta la cima del monte Suribachi. Su famosa fotografía de la bandera izada se convirtió en el Monumento a los Marines (Marine Corps War Memorial) de Arlington, Virginia.
Esta ruta sigue la batalla desde el desembarco del 19 de febrero, pasando por el izado de la bandera en el Suribachi y la lucha por la garganta del norte, hasta el monumento de Arlington y el Reencuentro de Honor de 1985, donde veteranos de ambos bandos se reunieron en la misma playa. La propia Iwo Jima no está abierta a los visitantes ordinarios.
Las invasiones mongolas de Japón de 1274 y 1281 se libraron en Tsushima, la isla de Iki y la bahía de Hakata, en Fukuoka, y terminaron frente a Takashima, donde un tifón azotó a la flota.
Este itinerario sigue los dos intentos en orden: los desembarcos de 1274 en Tsushima e Iki, la batalla de Bun'ei en la bahía de Hakata y el santuario de Hakozaki, después el muro de piedra construido a continuación, la flota fondeada frente a Shikanoshima y la tormenta del 15 de agosto de 1281. Varios lugares son aproximados, y el emplazamiento exacto del episodio de Takashima es solo la zona general de la isla.
Cien vistas famosas de Edo, de Hiroshige, una serie de 119 grabados ukiyo-e, muestra Edo, como se llamaba entonces Tokio: Nihonbashi, el santuario de Kanda, el estanque Shinobazu, Kameido Tenjin, Zōjō-ji y Sensō-ji, en Asakusa.
Esta ruta sigue siete de sus vistas en el orden de los grabados, desde Nihonbashi bajo la nieve hasta las puertas de Sensō-ji, cada una vinculada a un lugar que aún se puede visitar. El puente sobre el río Sumida del famoso chubasco repentino y la parada de Nihonbashi tienen marcadores aproximados.
