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Type of tourism
Field of Dreams (Dubuque County, Iowa)
Pop-culture tourism is the act of
traveling to locations featured in popular
literature ,
film ,
music , or any other form of media. Also referred to as a "Location Vacation".
Pop-culture tourism is in some respects akin to
pilgrimage , with its modern equivalents of places of pilgrimage, such as
Elvis Presley 's
Graceland and the grave of
Jim Morrison in
Père Lachaise Cemetery .
Locations
Popular destinations have included:
Petra , Jordan, where visits went from the thousands to the millions after the climactic scene of the 1989 film
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was filmed in
Al Khazneh .
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Stratford-upon-Avon , Warwickshire, England, birthplace of
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), receives about 4.9 million visitors a year from all over the world.
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Wimpstone , Warwickshire, England, where the original series of the BBC children's program
Teletubbies was shot (1997–2001)
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Enoshima (
Shōnan ) and
Kamakura district, originally a local tourist spot near
Tokyo . Many Japanese
anime and
manga series, such as
Ping Pong (1996),
Squid Girl (2007–2016),
Tsuritama (2012),
Tari Tari (2012), and one-off episodes in other series, took place there. Due to appearance in the opening theme of the 1990s anime series
Slam Dunk , an ordinary
level crossing of the
Enoshima Electric Railway , near
Kamakurakōkōmae Station , became popular attraction for tourists, notably from
China and
Taiwan .
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Civita di Bagnoregio , Italy, reported inspiration for the titular location of
Castle in the Sky
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Matamata, New Zealand , is the location of
The Shire and Hobbiton in
Peter Jackson 's
Lord of the Rings movie trilogy
Dubrovnik, Croatia , is the location of King's Landing in the
Game of Thrones TV series
The former home of
Beatrix Potter , popular children's author, is now a museum open to tourists in
Near and Far Sawrey, England
The Hunger Games film series was filmed in multiple locations in
North Carolina , including the
Henry River Mill Village , which housed the Mellark family bakery and the Everdeens’ shanty, and the
DuPont State Recreational Forest , where some scenes from the arena were filmed.
Forks, Washington , the setting of
Stephenie Meyer 's
Twilight series .
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The crosswalk outside
Abbey Road Studios in London is a popular destination for fans of
the Beatles , who were photographed using the crossing for the cover of their 1969 album
Abbey Road .
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