Known for doing his own stunts, Tom Cruise (who plays field agent Ethan Hunt) scaled the tallest building in the world, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, in the fourth installment of the franchise. The high-flying stunt scene takes place 1,700-feet in the air as Cruise dangles from a safety harness. For most visitors, the skyscraper’s observation decks provide a much safer view.

The island of Skopelos might not have the same familiarity as heavily-traveled Greek islands like Santorini and Mykonos, but it does have one thing going for it: “Mamma Mia!” — the hit 2008 musical starring Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried. To get there, visitors will need to travel by boat from neighboring Skiathos or mainland Greece. Movie fans will recognize Glysteri Beach, Kastani Beach, and the chapel of Agios Ioannis Prodromos, near the town of Glossa, where the climatic wedding took place.

The first time audiences met Captain Jack Sparrow was in 2003 in “Pirates Of The Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl,” which was filmed primarily in the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The fictional “Port Royal” was set at Wallilabou Bay on St. Vincent, and the town of Chateaubelair served as the main town. The Grenadine island Petite Tabac was the remote island where Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth Swann were deserted.

Pemberley is the fictional country estate of Mr. Darcy, the love interest of Elizabeth Bennet in the 2005 film, “Pride and Prejudice,” adapted from the classic Jane Austen novel. The home has been owned by the Devonshire family for 16 generations but is open to the public for tours. The 105-acre estate includes gardens, a farmyard, a hotel, and cottages where guests can stay overnight.

The 2018 Oscar-winning film “Black Panther” incorporated show-stopping scenery from South America, including Iguazu Falls on the Brazil-Argentina border. These breathtaking waterfalls provided the backdrop for the ritual at the coronation of the new king of Wakanda, T’Challa. The falls in the film were heavily enhanced using CGI, but they are still a major tourist attraction in real life.

The location scout for Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977) looked at places as far afield as India before landing on Wyoming’s Devils Tower as the spot for the climatic alien visitation. The distinctive flat-topped rock formation in the Black Hills has long held particular significance for Native American tribes. Hikers can now stay in a campground at the site, where the movie is screened each night.

The fictional city of Agrabah was created in a studio, but the surrounding desert scenes were filmed in a nature preserve in southern Jordan’s Wadi Rum Desert. Known for its red sand and otherworldly rock formations, the Wadi Rum desert served as the setting for the Cave of Wonders, which was filmed at the Seven Pillars of Wisdom. The rock bridge at Jebel Kharaz was another of the many desert rock formations seen in the 2019 version of “Aladdin.”

“The Dark Knight Rises,” the third of the Batman movie trilogy, was released in 2012. It was filmed around the world in places like London, Los Angeles, and India, but several key scenes were filmed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This includes the Gotham Rogues football game and stadium collapse, which took place at Acrisure Stadium (formerly Heinz Field), home of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Nearby Carnegie Mellon University also stood in for Gotham City Hall.

“The Twilight Saga” put the small Pacific Northwest town of Forks, Washington, on the map. The coastal village is located on the edge of Olympic National Park in western Washington, where the moss-covered Hoh Rain Forest and misty mountains provided the backdrop for this vampire romance series. Forks High School, Bella’s house, and Quileute Reservation beach are popular filming locations that fans often visit.

If you want to “have what she’s having,” you’ll need to head down to Manhattan’s Lower East Side and visit Katz's Delicatessen. Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan share a memorable meal at the 100-year-old institution. The restaurant recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of the 1989 film by shipping pastrami and turkey sandwiches nationwide so fans could, in fact, have what they were having.

Starring Angelina Jolie as heroine Lara Croft, this 2001 film was not created on a Hollywood set, but rather in an ancient city in the jungles of Cambodia. Located in modern-day Siem Reap, Ta Prohm was founded around 1186 CE and served as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery. Massive tree roots have engulfed this temple over the centuries, providing the perfect backdrop for Lara Croft’s adventure.

“If you build it, they will come.” The baseball diamond in Dyersville, Iowa, has been a tourist destination for fans ever since “Field of Dreams” was released in 1989. A more practical field was built adjacent to the movie location and is now home to an annual MLB game, played in old-timey uniforms.

Released in 1972, Francis Ford Coppola’s Italian mob drama “The Godfather” was filmed primarily in New York City and Sicily. Coppola chose the small, medieval villages of Savoca and Forza d’Agro to represent Corleone, Palermo, because actually filming in Palermo proved too difficult. Savoca's Church of San Nicolò is a particular draw for “Godfather” fans.

A small rocky dot off the coast of Ireland, the ruins of Skellig Michael were the site of Luke Skywalker’s self-imposed hermitage in “Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi” (2017). The only hurdle with filming at the scenic spot was its inhabitants, puffins, who were protected under law. Since the birds couldn’t be physically removed, filmmakers created a new space critter, the adorable porg, to digitally cover them up.

The classic 1975 horror film "Jaws" was set in the fictional town of Amity Island, New York, but the movie was filmed on the resort island of Martha’s Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts. Filmmakers chose a less-crowded island to give the film an eerie feel. Sites from the film — like the Amity Town Hall, the hardware store, and police department — all still exist on the island.

The Stanley Hotel in Estes, Colorado, inspired Stephen King’s “The Shining” novel, but the 1980 movie shot at Oregon’s Timberline Lodge instead. The hotel requested the number of the haunted room be changed from 217 (used in the book) to 237 since they have no such room. The lodge also has no hedge maze (those scenes were shot on a soundstage), but there is an axe on display that says, “Here’s Johnny”.

While most of “Avatar” was created with CGI, some of its backdrops were real, including the rock formations of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in eastern China. These sandstone rock stacks were edited for the film to look like they were floating, but much of the scenery is real. Visitors can take a 1,070-foot elevator to the top of the rock face for a bird’s-eye-view of the incredible park.

Starting with the original 1993 Steven Spielberg film, the “Jurassic Park” franchise has captivated audiences for decades. The franchise’s titular park is located on Isla Nublar, a fictional island west of Costa Rica, but the movies were filmed on several Hawaiian islands, particularly Oahu and Kauai. Manawaiopuna Falls on Kauai was the site of the famous helicopter landing scene during the first film in 1993.

One of London’s busiest railway hubs, King’s Cross Station is where Harry Potter catches the train to wizarding school in the magical series. In the story, getting to the Hogwarts Express requires walking through a seemingly solid wall. In real life, the station pays homage to this movie magic by having half a luggage cart sticking out of the wall, apparently heading for Platform 9 3/4.

Located at 14 North Moore Street in Tribeca, the Hook & Ladder Company 8 firehouse acted as the exterior for the Ghostbusters headquarters in the 1984 and its 1989 sequel. Still a functioning firehouse today, it is not open to the public, but fans can still take pictures outside and peek in to see the original Ghostbusters sign. Capitalizing on its brush with cinematic fame, the firehouse sells merchandise emblazoned with the familiar ghostly logo.

In 1998, “Lord of the Rings” film location scouts doing aerial reconnaissance spotted a 1,250-acre sheep farm in New Zealand they deemed perfect for the Shire — the homeland of hobbits. After filming, most of the sets were struck down, but 17 plywood facades remained. Crafty entrepreneurs turned the old sets into a tour, and Tolkein fans from around the world now flock to the site.

Set in New York City, the 1961 film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” takes its name from the luxury jewelry designer Tiffany & Co. which is featured in the opening scene of the film as Holly Golightly (played by Audrey Hepburn) enjoys breakfast on the street outside. The company’s flagship store is located at 727 Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan.

The ancient, abandoned city of Petra played the part of the Holy Grail’s resting spot in “Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade” (1989). Carved directly into 250-foot-tall canyon walls, the stunning facade of Al Khazneh (The Treasury) provided the memorable last shots of the original Indiana Jones trilogy. Unlike the film, which depicts the inside as cavernous (and booby-trapped), the interior of Al Khazneh is fairly compact.

Ferris Bueller enjoys the finer things in life during a visit to the Art Institute of Chicago as he plays hooky from school for a day. Other famous Chicago sites featured in the 1986 film include the Skydeck at Willis Tower (then called the Sears Tower), Wrigley Field baseball stadium, and Glencoe Beach on the shores of Lake Michigan.

The title may be "Sleepless in Seattle,” but this beloved ‘90s rom-com ends on the opposite coast in New York City. The stars align for Sam (played by Tom Hanks) and Annie (Meg Ryan) by the end of the film, when the duo's unforgettable meeting takes place on the observation deck of the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan.

British spy James Bond grew up in the fictional Skyfall Lodge, located in real-life Glencoe, a village in western Scotland. Several scenes for the 2012 Bond movie “Skyfall” — including 007's drive with “M” down the winding road in his Aston Martin — were filmed in a neighboring valley called Glen Etive. The Skyfall house itself doesn’t exist (it was created on a set in England), but the scenic road through the Scottish Highlands does.

“May the force be with you” when you visit Tunisia. The northern African country served as a stand-in for the desert planet of Tatooine in several of the “Star Wars” films. In fact, the Tunisian town of Tataouine was the original inspiration for the planet’s name. “Star Wars” filming locations dot much of southern Tunisia, from Berber town of Matmata to the desert town of Tozeur.

Based on the true story of medieval Scottish patriot William Wallace (played by Mel Gibson), “Braveheart” was filmed in Scotland and Ireland. Some of the most iconic scenes in the 1995 film take place in Glencoe, Scotland, at the foot of Ben Nevis, which is the tallest mountain in the U.K.

Now part of the Four Seasons hotel group, the Beverly Wilshire is a luxury hotel located on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Rodeo Drive in California’s wealthy Beverly Hills neighborhood. The hotel provides the backdrop for a budding relationship between Edward Lewis (played by Richard Gere) and Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) in the classic 1990 romantic comedy.

“The Sound of Music,” released in 1965, is remembered for its scenes of Julie Andrews singing in the Alps. Many sites in and around Salzburg, Austria, were used as filming locations, including the 18th-century Mirabell Garden fountain where Maria and the children sang “Do-Re-Mi.” The Leopoldskron and Frohburg Palaces were also used in scenes as the Von Trapp family villa, and the film’s famous gazebo is located on the grounds of Hellbrunn Palace.

During one of cinema’s finest training montages, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) runs up the 72 steps in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the first “Rocky” (1976). The moment is replicated in the “Rocky” sequels, and in “Rocky III,” (1982) a bronze statue of the fighter is placed atop the stairs. After the movie was finished filming, Stallone donated the statue to the city, and it’s still on display to this day.