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Civic and monumental

Columns, broad steps, stone facades and open plazas. Courthouses, museums, libraries, government blocks and the squares they face.

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Al-Darb al-AhmarFilming in Al-Darb al-Ahmar, Cairo. Narrow medieval streets run from a stone city gate past Mamluk mosques to a covered textile market.Bab Zuweila, Street of the Tentmakers, Mosque of al-Salih Tala'i

Annapolis Historic DistrictFilming in Annapolis Historic District, Annapolis. Brick buildings line brick paved streets that run from two colonial circles down to a working city dock.Maryland State House, St. Anne's Church, Shiplap House

AntigoneFilming in Antigone, Montpellier. Monumental sand coloured apartment blocks with giant columns and pediments line a straight pedestrian axis toward the river.Place du Nombre d'Or, Place de Thessalie, Place Zeus

Antigua GuatemalaFilming in Antigua Guatemala. Single storey stucco houses in pink, yellow and ochre line a cobbled grid under three volcanoes, with roofless Baroque church ruins standing behind restored facades.Palacio de los Capitanes Generales, Iglesia de San Francisco, La Recolección

Armory SquareFilming in Armory Square, Syracuse. Red brick warehouse and commercial blocks from the 1870s to the 1940s, arched windows and brick sidewalks around a former armory turned science museum.Jefferson Street, Butler Block, Neal and Hyde Block

AsakusaFilming in Asakusa, Tokyo. A red temple gate opens onto a covered arcade of low shopfronts, with an old amusement park and rickshaws on the street outside.Kaminarimon, Hozomon, Nakamise-dori

Asbury ParkFilming in Asbury Park. A convention hall and the open steel frame of a derelict casino stand on a boardwalk, with Victorian houses inland.Asbury Park Convention Hall, Paramount Theatre, Asbury Park Boardwalk

Back BayFilming in Back Bay, Boston. Brownstone rows from 1859 to 1900, and the library Spotlight filmed from Copley Square.Boston Public Library, Copley Square, Newbury Street

Baden bei WienFilming in Baden bei Wien, Austria. Pastel plastered Biedermeier houses line the pedestrian old town, where Am anderen Ufer filmed its closing scene on the Hauptplatz.Hauptplatz and the Pestsäule, Rathaus, Kaiserhaus

BaixaFilming in Baixa, Lisbon. A rebuilt eighteenth century grid of arcaded stone blocks meets a river facing plaza closed by the Rua Augusta Arch, filmed in the 1996 Gulliver's Travels miniseries.Praça do Comércio, Rua Augusta Arch, Rossio

Ballard EstateFilming in Ballard Estate, Mumbai. Matching stone office blocks with arched openings and a whitewashed Art Deco petrol pump line a planned grid of streets near the docks.Britannia & Co, Grand Hotel, Karfule Art Deco fuel station

BanksideFilming in Bankside, London. A brick former power station with a single tall chimney stands beside a reconstructed timber theatre with a thatched roof, on a paved riverside walk facing St Paul's across the Thames.Tate Modern, Shakespeare's Globe, Millennium Bridge

Barri GòticFilming in Barri Gòtic, Barcelona. Narrow stone alleys open onto small squares under carved gothic facades, with one lane dressed as eighteenth century Paris for Perfume.Barcelona Cathedral, Plaça Reial, Plaça de Sant Felip Neri

BelgraviaFilming in Belgravia, London. White stucco terraces ring private garden squares, with cobbled mews and embassy plaques behind them.Belgrave Square, Eaton Square, Belgrave Mews North

BloomsburyFilming in Bloomsbury, London. Yellow stock brick Georgian terraces around railed garden squares, with the British Museum's Ionic colonnade and Senate House's Portland stone tower a few streets apart. Batman Begins shot the Senate House lobby as the Gotham courthouse.Senate House, British Museum, Victoria House / Bloomsbury Ballroom

BoardwalkFilming on the Boardwalk, Atlantic City. A raised wood boardwalk lined with casino hotel towers, arcades and the ocean beyond.Ocean Casino Resort, Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Resorts

Bolton HillFilming in Bolton Hill, Baltimore. Matching red brick and brownstone rowhouses behind white marble steps, with landscaped medians down Eutaw Place and Park Avenue.John Street, Park Avenue at McMechen Street, F. Scott Fitzgerald Park

Bukchon Hanok VillageFilming in Bukchon Hanok Village, Seoul. Sloping lanes of tiled hanok roofs and courtyard walls, on the hill between two royal palaces.Bukchon-ro 11-gil, Gahoe-dong, Rakgojae

Bunker HillFilming in Bunker Hill, Downtown Los Angeles. Office towers and museums sit on a raised plateau above downtown, linked by plazas and a short funicular railway.Angels Flight, US Bank Tower, Westin Bonaventure Hotel

BycullaFilming in Byculla, Mumbai. Chawl balconies and a painted mill facade sit near the Y-Bridge flyover Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro filmed in 1983.Byculla railway station, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Veermata Jijabai Bhonsale Udyan

Calea VictorieiFilming on Calea Victoriei, Bucharest. Stone Beaux-Arts and neoclassical facades, wrought iron balconies and domed corner buildings line a wide paved boulevard through the city centre.Kretzulescu Church, Romanian Athenaeum, Athénée Palace

Calton HillFilming in Calton Hill, Edinburgh. A grassy hilltop with twelve Greek columns and a stone tower, looking down over the Old Town.National Monument, Nelson Monument, Dugald Stewart Monument

Cardiff BayFilming in Cardiff Bay, Cardiff. A freshwater bay ringed by a red brick Victorian dock building, a glass fronted parliament and the bronze shelled Wales Millennium Centre, whose foyer Doctor Who used as a futuristic hospital.Wales Millennium Centre, Senedd, Pierhead Building

CarltonFilming in Carlton, Melbourne. Polychrome brick terraces and Lygon Street's restaurant strip beneath the Royal Exhibition Building's dome.Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens, Lygon Street

Casco AntiguoFilming in Casco Antiguo, Cádiz. Narrow lanes of white and pastel stucco open onto small squares, with a cathedral dome above the rooftops.Avenida Campo del Sur, Catedral de Cádiz, Torre Tavira

Cathays ParkFilming in Cathays Park, Cardiff. White Portland stone civic buildings with domes and colonnades stand around formal gardens, and the Glamorgan Building doubled for the Foreign Office in the Prime Video series Young Sherlock.National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff City Hall, Glamorgan Building

Centro HistóricoFilming in Centro Histórico, San Miguel de Allende. Pink cantera stone spires rise over a plaza ringed by ochre and yellow colonial facades.Jardín Principal, Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel, Palacio Municipal

Centro HistóricoFilming in Centro Histórico, Mexico City. Tezontle stone palaces and church towers around the vast paved Zócalo, where Spectre staged its Day of the Dead opening sequence.Metropolitan Cathedral, Palacio Nacional, Templo Mayor

Centro Histórico de QuitoFilming in Centro Histórico de Quito. Whitewashed colonial blocks and carved stone churches climb steep streets between Plaza Grande and the Panecillo hill.Church of La Compañía de Jesús, Plaza de San Francisco, Plaza Grande

Centro StoricoFilming in Centro Storico, Genoa. Narrow stone alleys run between plaster facades near Via Garibaldi, a filming location in the 2008 film Genova.Via Garibaldi, Palazzo Rosso, Piazza Banchi

Century CityFilming in Century City, Los Angeles. Freestanding glass office towers and a curved hotel stand apart across wide plazas and sunken courtyards.Fox Plaza, Century Plaza Towers, Century Plaza Hotel

ChaillotFilming in Chaillot, Paris. Two curved stone wings frame a broad esplanade that steps down through terraced gardens to the Eiffel Tower across the river.Palais de Chaillot, Jardins du Trocadéro, Palais Galliera

CharlottenburgFilming in Charlottenburg, Berlin. Kurfürstendamm's wide boulevard and Wilhelmine apartment blocks, and the stretch Octopussy filmed past the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Zoo Palast, Charlottenburg Palace

Chatham Historic DockyardFilming in Chatham Historic Dockyard, Chatham. Brick storehouses and timber mast houses stand inside dockyard walls on the River Medway, used by Sherlock Holmes for Victorian London streets.Upper Mast House, The Victorian Ropery, No. 1 Smithery

City of LondonFilming in the City of London. Narrow bent lanes of stone frontages under glass towers, and the Leadenhall Market doorway Harry Potter used as the Leaky Cauldron.St Paul's Cathedral, Peter's Hill, Castle Baynard Street

CliftonFilming in Clifton, Bristol. Pale limestone Georgian terraces and crescents stand on high ground above the Avon Gorge, and Before We Die used the suspension bridge across both its series.Royal York Crescent, Clifton Suspension Bridge, Princess Victoria Street

ColabaFilming in Colaba, Mumbai. A yellow basalt gateway on the harbour, backed by an arcaded colonial shopping causeway.Gateway of India, Royal Bombay Yacht Club, Colaba Causeway

Commercial DistrictFilming in the Commercial District, Liverpool. Stone and terracotta bank offices with columns and domes, and the stretch of Water Street Florence Foster Jenkins filmed as 1940s New York.Liverpool Town Hall, Bank of England Building, British and Foreign Marine Insurance Building

ConcourseFilming in Concourse, New York City. The Grand Concourse runs wide past Art Deco apartment houses to the limestone courthouse at 161st Street.Bronx County Courthouse, Joyce Kilmer Park, Walton Avenue

CoyoacánFilming in Coyoacán, Mexico City. Two colonial plazas meet beneath a sixteenth century church and low houses in strong colours behind high walls, among them the real house where Trotsky was assassinated, used in the film El Elegido.Plaza Hidalgo, Jardín Centenario, Parroquia de San Juan Bautista

Crown HeightsFilming in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Eastern Parkway runs through the middle of it, 210 feet wide with a service road on each side. The blocks north of the parkway are brownstone and limestone rows from the 1880s and 1890s.Eastern Parkway, Dean Street, Bergen Street

DejviceFilming in Dejvice, Prague. Interwar stuccoed apartment blocks and ministry buildings ring the traffic circle at Vítězné náměstí, and the Grand Hotel International's Stalinist tower on Koulova played 1959 Prague in Šakalí léta.Vítězné náměstí, Grand Hotel International, Czech Technical University campus

Diocletian's PalaceFilming in Diocletian's Palace, Split. Pale limestone walls, arched gates and a columned square inside a working old town.Peristil, Golden Gate, Silver Gate

Donegall SquareFilming in Donegall Square, Belfast. A green domed stone city hall faces a formal lawn ringed by colonnaded Edwardian office fronts.Belfast City Hall, Titanic Memorial, Belfast Cenotaph

Dong Khoi StreetFilming in Dong Khoi Street, Ho Chi Minh City. Cream colonial hotels line the street, and Lam Son Square at its upper end is the square both Quiet American films used.Lam Son Square, Municipal Theatre, Caravelle Hotel

Downtown AlbuquerqueFilming in Downtown Albuquerque. Low 1920s office blocks in concrete and terra cotta line Central Avenue under the KiMo Theater's Pueblo Deco front, where Better Call Saul shot Jimmy McGill's courtroom and hideout scenes.KiMo Theater, First National Bank Building, Occidental Life Building

Downtown AustinFilming in Downtown Austin. Brick and limestone storefronts on Congress Avenue below glass condo towers, and the Driskill Hotel that played San Antonio's Menger in Lonesome Dove.Texas State Capitol, Paramount Theatre, Driskill Hotel

Downtown BrooklynFilming in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City. Borough Hall's colonnade and a pedestrian shopping mall sit under new glass residential towers.Brooklyn Borough Hall, Fulton Street Mall, Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn

Downtown BuffaloFilming in Downtown Buffalo, Buffalo. Neoclassical and Art Deco office towers of the 1920s rise around Lafayette Square, with light rail on Main Street.Lafayette Square, Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Liberty Building

Downtown CairoFilming in Downtown Cairo, Cairo. Wide stone-faced streets meet at circular squares, with deep balconies and ground floor cafes.Tahrir Square, Talaat Harb Square, The Yacoubian Building

Downtown DallasFilming in Downtown Dallas. Oliver Stone restored Dealey Plaza for JFK, and Dallas City Hall's inverted pyramid played OCP headquarters in RoboCop.Dealey Plaza, Texas School Book Depository, Dallas City Hall

Downtown DecaturFilming in Downtown Decatur, Georgia. A granite courthouse square ringed by brick storefronts, with the plaza HBO's Watchmen dressed as present-day Tulsa.Historic DeKalb County Courthouse, Brick Store Pub, Eddie's Attic

Downtown DetroitFilming in Downtown Detroit. Limestone Art Deco towers rise over broad straight avenues around Campus Martius Park, and Batman v Superman used the alley beside the Penobscot Building as Metropolis.Guardian Building, Wayne County Building, Campus Martius Park

Downtown Fort WorthFilming in Downtown Fort Worth, Fort Worth. A seven storey wedge shaped office building meets red brick storefronts and glass office towers around a pedestrian square.Tarrant County Courthouse, Flatiron Building, Atelier Building

Downtown HonoluluFilming in Downtown Honolulu. Glass office towers rise over Bishop Street behind low government buildings with columned porticos, and the district ends at a working harbor.Aliʻiōlani Hale, Iolani Palace, First Hawaiian Center

Downtown HoustonFilming in Downtown Houston. Glass and steel office towers on a tight angled grid, with light rail down Main Street and the Wortham Theater Center corner RoboCop 2 turned into a future Detroit.Houston City Hall, Tranquillity Park, Alley Theatre

Downtown MiamiFilming in Downtown Miami, Florida. Terra cotta bank towers from the 1920s line Flagler Street, and Bad Boys used the county courthouse as its police station.Flagler Street, Miami-Dade County Courthouse, Alfred I. DuPont Building

Downtown MilwaukeeFilming in Downtown Milwaukee. Milwaukee City Hall's Flemish Renaissance tower over the RiverWalk, and the marble bank hall Public Enemies used for its Depression era robbery.Milwaukee City Hall, Milwaukee County Historical Society, U.S. Bank Center

Downtown NewarkFilming in Downtown Newark, New Jersey. Stone and brick office towers ring Four Corners, and Newark City Hall is where The Dark Knight Rises unveiled its own Batman statue.Four Corners, Paramount Theatre, Military Park

Downtown PhoenixFilming in Downtown Phoenix. A compact cluster of highrises over wide surface lots, and the corner where Psycho's 1960 opening finds the Jefferson Hotel.Chase Tower, Luhrs Tower, Orpheum Theatre

Downtown Salt Lake CityFilming in Downtown Salt Lake City. Wide granite streets face the Wasatch Range, and the courthouse SLC Punk! used for its Market Street scenes stands a few blocks from Temple Square.Temple Square, Frank E. Moss Courthouse, Salt Lake City and County Building

Downtown San AntonioFilming in Downtown San Antonio. A sunken stone riverwalk under cypress trees, and the Tower Life Building that appears behind a scene in Miss Congeniality.The Alamo, Arneson River Theatre, Menger Hotel

Downtown WorcesterFilming in Downtown Worcester, Massachusetts. Granite and limestone office towers from the early 1900s rise eight to eleven storeys over a compact Main Street grid.Slater Building, Park Building, Mechanics Hall

EdgbastonFilming in Edgbaston, Birmingham. Red brick and terracotta villas in Italianate and Gothic Revival styles line curving avenues behind clipped hedges, almost without modern infill.Carpenter Road, 21 Yateley Road, St Bartholomew's Church

Esplanada dos MinistériosFilming on the Esplanada dos Ministérios, Brasília. Seventeen identical nine-storey ministry blocks stand in two rows along a twelve-lane boulevard and a wide grass median.Palácio da Justiça, Palácio Itamaraty, Teatro Nacional Cláudio Santoro

EURFilming in EUR, Rome. A white travertine cube with two hundred and sixteen identical arches rises off a straight boulevard, the steps where The Last Man on Earth staged its 1964 chase.Via Cristoforo Colombo, Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, Palazzo dei Congressi

European QuarterFilming in the European Quarter, Brussels. Curved glass institutional towers line wide boulevards around the colonnaded stone arcade at Cinquantenaire, with older townhouses wedged between them.Berlaymont building, Cinquantenaire Arcade, Espace Leopold

Exposition ParkFilming in Exposition Park, South Los Angeles. A stadium, three museums and a sunken rose garden sit inside one 160 acre park.Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Natural History Museum, Rose Garden

Fair ParkFilming in Fair Park, Dallas. Cream stucco and limestone art deco halls from 1936 line a paved esplanade, and the Cotton Bowl hosted a shootout for Fox's The Good Guys.Tower Building, Hall of State, Magnolia Lounge

Federal TriangleFilming in Federal Triangle, Washington DC. Limestone government buildings in a matched neoclassical style, and the archive building where National Treasure stages its Declaration of Independence theft.Federal Trade Commission Building, Woodrow Wilson Plaza, Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building

FenwayFilming in Fenway, Boston. Five- and six-storey apartment blocks line the side streets, with the green wall of Fenway Park and the marshland paths of the Back Bay Fens close by.Fenway Park, Museum of Fine Arts, Kelleher Rose Garden

Financial DistrictFilming in the Financial District, Toronto. Black and gold bank towers rise over a granite plaza, and the streets between them go quiet on evenings and weekends.Toronto-Dominion Centre, Royal Bank Plaza, 200 Bay Street, First Canadian Place

Financial DistrictFilming in the Financial District, San Francisco. Granite banking halls run under office towers on a grid the cable cars still climb, capped by the Transamerica Pyramid at the north end.Merchants Exchange Building, Russ Building, Transamerica Pyramid

Financial DistrictFilming in the Financial District, Manhattan. Narrow one lane streets in shadow between some of the tallest buildings in the city. Wall Street and Broad Street have not taken cars since 2001.Trinity Church, Broad Street, New York Stock Exchange

Foggy BottomFilming in Foggy Bottom, Washington DC. Narrow Victorian rowhouses run beside the curved concrete Watergate complex, where All the President's Men filmed its real break-in.Watergate Complex, Hall on Virginia Avenue, Kennedy Center

Forest ParkFilming in Forest Park, St. Louis. Art Hill rises above the Grand Basin, and the Jewel Box glass greenhouse sits at Wells and McKinley Drives.Art Hill, Saint Louis Art Museum, Grand Basin

FortFilming in Fort, Mumbai. Grey stone Gothic facades face cream Art Deco fronts across the Oval Maidan, with the terminus Slumdog Millionaire used for its final scene.Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Rajabai Clock Tower, Oval Maidan

Fortress of LouisbourgFilming in Fortress of Louisbourg, Louisbourg. Grey stone walls and grass ramparts enclose a reconstructed 1740s town beside a harbour.King's Bastion, Military Chapel, Ordonnateur's Residence

FriedrichshainFilming in Friedrichshain, Berlin. A wide socialist era boulevard of ceramic tile blocks and twin towers, and the block MI-5 used as an unnamed Berlin street.Frankfurter Tor, Haus am Weberwiese, East Side Gallery

Georgian QuarterFilming in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool. Flat fronted Georgian terraces around Falkner Square and Canning Street, the square Peaky Blinders used as Belgravia.Falkner Square Gardens, Canning Street, Gambier Terrace

Golden Square MileFilming in the Golden Square Mile, Montreal. Greystone mansions and stone institutional buildings climb toward Mount Royal, and McGill's Arts Building played a Pentagon corridor in X-Men: Days of Future Past.McGill Arts Building, Roddick Gates, Redpath Museum

GrasleiFilming in Graslei, Ghent. Stepped and bell gables in sandstone and brick line the quay, with the Korenlei facing them across the Leie.Korenlei, Grasbrug, Sint-Michielsbrug

GreenwichFilming in Greenwich, London. Twin domes and a colonnaded courtyard at the Old Royal Naval College have played Buckingham Palace and Napoleonic Paris on screen, below a hill that rises to the Royal Observatory.Painted Hall, Queen's House, Cutty Sark

GuanajuatoFilming in Guanajuato, Mexico. Pink and green sandstone buildings climb a steep ravine on streets that narrow into stone stairways and covered tunnels.Callejón del Beso, Jardín de la Unión, Teatro Juárez

Habana ViejaFilming in Habana Vieja, Havana. Colonnaded stone streets open onto four walled squares, with laundry strung across the balconies above.Havana Cathedral, Plaza de San Francisco de Asís, Plaza Vieja

HafenCityFilming in HafenCity, Hamburg. Glass and red brick blocks line raised streets around harbor canals, with the Elbphilharmonie's wave roofed concert hall at the western tip.Elbphilharmonie, Magellan-Terrassen, Kehrwiederspitze water police station

HamiltonFilming in Hamilton, Bermuda. Pastel colonial shopfronts line a harbourfront street, with cruise ships berthed along it.Front Street, City Hall, Walker Arcade

Hampstead Garden SuburbFilming in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London. Red brick and white roughcast Arts and Crafts houses line curving hedged avenues around Lutyens's domed and spired churches.St Jude's Church, Free Church, Temple Fortune Hill

Het ZuidFilming in Het Zuid, Antwerp. Wide stone boulevards radiate from a museum square, and the quay terraces used in Smoorverliefd sit along the old filled-in docks.Vlaamsekaai, Waalsekaai, Scheldekaaien

Historic BethlehemFilming in Historic Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A colonial quarter of stone and log buildings along Monocacy Creek, below a church street of fieldstone buildings from the 1740s and a stuccoed 1806 church.Central Moravian Church, Colonial Industrial Quarter, Gemeinhaus and Bell House

Hochelaga-MaisonneuveFilming in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Montreal. Brick triplex rows with exterior staircases surround a cluster of Beaux-Arts civic buildings, with the leaning Montreal Tower on the skyline.Maisonneuve Market, Bain Morgan, Olympic Stadium

HollywoodFilming in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Movie palace forecourts and brass stars set into the sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard.Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Dolby Theatre, Hollywood Pantages Theatre

HradčanyFilming in Hradčany, Prague 1. A stone paved square of sgraffito and stucco palaces below Prague Castle's guarded courtyards, where Amadeus filmed Emperor Joseph II's Vienna.Hradčanské náměstí, Archbishop's Palace, Schwarzenberg Palace

Île de la CitéFilming in Île de la Cité, Paris. A small stone island across the 1st and 4th arrondissements holds Notre-Dame, the law courts and the Conciergerie within one block, with Pont Neuf and Square du Vert-Galant at its western tip.Notre Dame de Paris, Sainte-Chapelle, the Conciergerie

IntramurosFilming in Intramuros, Manila. Thick stone walls and cobblestone streets inside the old Spanish city, and the courtyard where Ang Larawan restaged the La Naval procession with six hundred extras.Fort Santiago, San Agustin Church, Plaza San Luis Complex

James BayFilming in James Bay, Victoria. Painted wood Victorian houses stand on small lots behind the stone Parliament Buildings, with an open road along the strait on the other side.Parliament Buildings, Pendray House, Emily Carr House

JosefovFilming in Josefov, Prague. Art Nouveau apartment houses along Pařížská, with the district's synagogues and its walled Jewish cemetery a short walk away.Pařížská, Old-New Synagogue, Old Jewish Cemetery

KalemegdanFilming in Kalemegdan, Belgrade. Stone ramparts and brick gates ring the fortress on a bluff above the river confluence.Pobednik (The Victor) monument, Military Museum, Despot's Gate

Kartavya PathFilming in Kartavya Path, Delhi. Lawns and canals run about three kilometers between the presidential palace and India Gate, where extras for the funeral scene in Gandhi (1982) were summoned.India Gate, Rashtrapati Bhavan, National War Memorial

King's CrossFilming in King's Cross, London. Two arched Victorian train sheds behind a plain brick front, and the platforms the Harry Potter films used for Platform Nine and Three-Quarters.Granary Square, Central Saint Martins, coal drops

KirkstallFilming in Kirkstall, Leeds. A roofless Cistercian abbey ruin stands in parkland beside the River Aire, used for the BBC's Gunpowder and Frankenstein's Wedding.Kirkstall Bridge, Abbey House Museum, St Stephen's Church

KungsholmenFilming in Kungsholmen, Stockholm. Red brick and stone civic buildings in National Romantic style, and the courtroom where The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo staged Blomkvist's libel trial.Stockholm City Hall, Stockholm Court House, Stockholm Police House

KurviertelFilming in Kurviertel, Wiesbaden. A domed neoclassical spa house with long colonnades, and an English landscape park behind it.Kurhaus, Bowling Green, Kurpark

L'ÉcussonFilming in L'Écusson, Montpellier. Narrow pedestrian lanes thread between pale limestone hotels particuliers and Haussmann era townhouses with wrought iron balconies.Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, Tour de la Babote, Tour des Pins

La CandelariaFilming in La Candelaria, Bogotá. Steep cobbled streets climb from the government square toward Monserrate, past the crossroads where Triple Frontier's cast said their goodbyes.Plaza de Bolívar, Chorro de Quevedo, Museo Botero

La DéfenseFilming in La Défense, Paris. Glass office towers ring a raised esplanade over a sunken ring road, closed at one end by the Grande Arche.Grande Arche, CNIT, Tour First

Lafayette SquareFilming in Lafayette Square, St. Louis. Second Empire and Italianate townhouses with mansard roofs ring a fenced Victorian park, and a house on Whittemore Place played a Chicago home in Up in the Air.Lafayette Park, Benton Place, Park Avenue

LandstraßeFilming in Landstraße, Vienna's 3rd district. The Belvedere's Baroque garden and gate, and the corner The Third Man used for the Russian zone of occupied Vienna.The Belvedere's main gate, Wiener Konzerthaus, Hundertwasserhaus

Lange VoorhoutFilming in Lange Voorhout, The Hague. Four rows of lime trees line a shell sand walk, with brick and cream mansions on both sides.Pulchri Studio, Hotel des Indes, Escher in Het Paleis

Latin QuarterFilming in the Latin Quarter, Paris. Narrow sloping streets of pale stone buildings climb toward the Panthéon, the corner David Fincher used for The Killer.Panthéon, Rue des Carmes, Rue Lanneau

Lincoln CenterFilming in Lincoln Center, New York City. A white travertine opera house and glass-fronted halls face a wide paved plaza with a round fountain at its center.Josie Robertson Plaza, Metropolitan Opera House, David Geffen Hall

LlandaffFilming in Llandaff, Cardiff. A cathedral and its ruined bishop's palace sit in a green hollow of stone lanes, the west front standing in for a French village church in Doctor Who.Llandaff Cathedral, Cathedral Green, Bishop's Palace

Logan SquareFilming in Logan Square, Chicago. A marble column in a traffic circle where four boulevards meet, and the block NBC's Chicago Fire dressed on Sacramento Avenue.Illinois Centennial Monument, Kedzie Boulevard, Logan Boulevard

Los FelizFilming in Los Feliz, Los Angeles. Frank Lloyd Wright built a house here, and so did his son and Richard Neutra.Ennis House, Sowden House, Lovell House

Lydiard StreetFilming in Lydiard Street, Ballarat. Two and three storey shopfronts and hotels under cast iron verandahs, and the street the South Korean film Road to Boston dressed as 1940s Boston.Her Majesty's Theatre, Craig's Royal Hotel, the former Mining Exchange

Macon Historic DistrictFilming in Macon Historic District, Macon. Brick and stone storefronts line downtown streets named for trees, backed by columned Greek Revival mansions and a seven story opera house facade.Grand Opera House, Johnston-Felton-Hay House, Cannonball House

Malá StranaFilming in Malá Strana, Prague 1. Baroque palaces and pastel stucco climb toward the castle, and the square where Mission Impossible staged its embassy scenes.Nerudova, Wallenstein Palace, Vrtbovská Garden

Marietta SquareFilming on Marietta Square, Georgia. Two story brick storefronts face a park with a gazebo and a fountain.Glover Park, Strand Theatre, North Park Square

MarktFilming in Markt, Bruges. A large cobbled square framed by stepped gabled guild houses and a tall belfry tower, with horse drawn carriages waiting at the curb.Belfry of Bruges (Belfort), Provincial Court, Historium

Medina of MarrakeshFilming in the Medina of Marrakesh. Red ochre walls enclose covered souk lanes and the square used in Hideous Kinky and Sex and the City 2.Jemaa el-Fnaa, Koutoubia Mosque, Ben Youssef Madrasa

MehrauliFilming in Mehrauli, Delhi. Red sandstone tombs, mosques and a soaring stone minaret stand among narrow lanes and modern housing in this stretch of South Delhi.Qutub Minar, Iron Pillar, Jamali Kamali Mosque and Tomb

Merchant CityFilming in Merchant City, Glasgow. Blond and red sandstone warehouses and civic buildings on a grid of wide straight streets, and the corner World War Z dressed as Philadelphia.Trades Hall, Glasgow City Halls and Old Fruitmarket, The Ramshorn

MicrocentroFilming in Microcentro, Buenos Aires. Narrow pedestrian streets of stone bank headquarters and office blocks, with the Palacio de Tribunales and the Banco de la Nación on the grid.Obelisco, Banco de la Nación casa central, Palacio de Tribunales

MidtownFilming in Midtown Detroit. White marble museum and library facades across Woodward Avenue, and the library Batman v Superman dressed as a gala museum.Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Public Library, Wayne State University

Miracle MileFilming in Miracle Mile, Central Los Angeles. A 1930s Art Deco boulevard with a fenced tar pit and mammoth sculptures at its center, and museum buildings lining both sides of Wilshire.Wilshire Tower, El Rey Theatre, Johnie's Coffee Shop

MitteFilming in Mitte, Berlin. Government ministries and museum colonnades stand over wide squares, where John Wick Chapter 4 fought to steal a car on Gendarmenmarkt.Brandenburg Gate, Bode Museum, Monbijoupark

MoabitFilming in Moabit, Berlin. Red brick tenement blocks behind a loop of canals, and the former prison Babylon Berlin used as a Reichswehr office.Arminiusmarkthalle, Moabit Criminal Court, Westhafen

MontpellierFilming in Montpellier, Cheltenham. Cream stuccoed Regency terraces lead to a caryatid lined shopping walk and a domed rotunda.Montpellier Walk, Montpellier Rotunda, Montpellier Spa Road

Morningside HeightsFilming in Morningside Heights, New York City. Limestone university quadrangles and prewar apartment blocks sit on a ridge, with an unfinished Gothic cathedral and Riverside Church a few blocks apart.Low Memorial Library, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Riverside Church

Mount VernonFilming in Mount Vernon, Baltimore. Brownstone townhouses around a marble column monument, and the mansion House of Cards used as a Pennsylvania hotel.Washington Monument, Peabody Institute, Garrett-Jacobs Mansion

MuranówFilming in Muranów, Warsaw. Rendered plaster apartment blocks raised above street level around courtyards, and the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes square where A Real Pain shot its Warsaw scene.POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, Umschlagplatz Monument

Museum DistrictFilming in the Museum District, Houston. Limestone museum buildings and a reflecting pool around Hermann Park, and the butterfly conservatory Boyhood visited.Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Miller Outdoor Theatre

Museum IslandFilming in Museum Island, Berlin. Five neoclassical museum buildings with columned porticoes and wide stone staircases line a narrow island in the Spree, linked by footbridges and a colonnaded court.Altes Museum, Alte Nationalgalerie, Neues Museum

NaardenFilming in Naarden, North Holland. Brick walls and grass bastions make a six-bastion star around a town of stepped gables and red tile roofs.Utrechtse Poort, Nederlands Vestingmuseum, Great Church

Nathan Phillips SquareFilming in Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto. A wide paved plaza between two curved concrete City Hall towers, with a reflecting pool that becomes a skating rink in winter.Toronto City Hall, Old City Hall, Osgoode Hall

National MallFilming on the National Mall, Washington. A two mile lawn between the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial, lined with Smithsonian facades, elm allees and reflecting pools at both ends.Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, Capitol

New CenterFilming in New Center, Detroit. Granite and marble Art Deco towers by Albert Kahn rise over a low commercial boulevard, and the Fisher Building's marble lobby stood in for a briefing room in a Transformers sequel.Fisher Building, Albert Kahn Building, Cadillac Place

NorrmalmFilming in Norrmalm, Stockholm. A sunken 1960s plaza of glass and concrete towers, and the street Lisbeth Salander walked in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.Sergels torg, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Hötorget buildings

Nowa HutaFilming in Nowa Huta, Kraków. Five avenues radiate from a socialist realist square of rendered, arcaded blocks, and Dzięcioł i Violetta dressed a courtyard here for the People's Republic era.Plac Centralny, Aleja Róż, Osiedle Zielone

OaklandFilming in Oakland, Pittsburgh. A forty two storey limestone Gothic tower rises from a campus lawn beside a colonnaded institute building that played Gotham City Hall in The Dark Knight Rises.Cathedral of Learning, Mellon Institute, Heinz Memorial Chapel

Old CityFilming in Old City, Philadelphia. Federal and Georgian brick rowhouses and cast iron commercial fronts around Elfreth's Alley, and the church steeple used three times on screen.Elfreth's Alley, Cuthbert Street, Betsy Ross House

Old LouisvilleFilming in Old Louisville, Louisville. Brick and stone Victorian mansions line a car free court, where Queen of the Ring filmed in 2023.St James Court, Belgravia Court, Werne's Row

Old QuebecFilming in Old Québec, Québec City. Steep stone stairs and plastered stone houses inside city walls, with the copper roofed Château Frontenac above the river.Château Frontenac, Terrasse Dufferin, Place Royale

Old San JuanFilming in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Blue cobbled streets run between balconied colonial houses in bright colours, ending at two stone forts above the sea.Castillo San Felipe del Morro, Castillo San Cristóbal, La Fortaleza

Old TownFilming in the Old Town, Marbella. Whitewashed lanes with wrought iron balconies and bougainvillea lead to a small plaza planted with orange trees.Plaza de los Naranjos, Casa del Corregidor, the town hall

Old TownFilming in Old Town, Toledo. Steep stone streets climb between tall facades and open onto small plazas, with horseshoe arches and patterned brick from Mudejar builders.Puerta del Sol, Puerta de Bisagra, Plaza de Zocodover

Old TownFilming in the Old Town, Edinburgh. Narrow stone closes drop away from the Royal Mile, one of them the alley where Vision is stabbed in Avengers Infinity War.Victoria Street, St Giles' Cathedral, Cockburn Street

OlympiaparkFilming in Olympiapark, Berlin. A travertine clad 1936 stadium bowl, a bell tower and open parade lawns inside a wooded park.Marathon Gate, Maifeld, Olympia-Glockenturm

OpéraFilming in Opéra, Paris. Wide, treeless Haussmann boulevards lined with cream stone facades and wrought iron balconies converge on the Palais Garnier, with the glass domed department stores of Boulevard Haussmann close by.Café de la Paix, Printemps Haussmann, Galeries Lafayette

Peachtree CenterFilming in Peachtree Center, Atlanta. Beige concrete office towers and atrium hotels rise from a raised podium, linked across the streets by enclosed skybridges.Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta Marriott Marquis

Piccadilly CircusFilming at Piccadilly Circus, London. A curved LED screen wraps the stone corner building above a six-way traffic roundabout, with a fountain and its winged statue at the centre.Criterion Theatre, London Pavilion, Shaftesbury Avenue

PittvilleFilming in Pittville, Cheltenham. A domed Greek Revival pump room faces a park and lake, framed by stuccoed Regency villas on the surrounding streets.Pittville Pump Room, Pittville Park, Evesham Road

Plac KonstytucjiFilming in Plac Konstytucji, Warsaw. Curved six and seven storey stone apartment blocks ring a wide traffic circle, with arcades and candelabra lamp posts along the boulevard that crosses it.Hotel MDM, Piękna Street corner, Zaułek Braci Pakulskich

Plaza de ArmasFilming in Plaza de Armas, Cusco. Two-storey arcades surround a stone square with a central fountain, and a cathedral and a Jesuit church stand on its east side.Catedral del Cusco, Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús, Iglesia de El Triunfo

Portsmouth Historic DockyardFilming at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Georgian brick storehouses and dry docks line the quays, with HMS Victory and HMS Warrior moored as full size sailing ships.Victory Gate, HMS Victory, Storehouse 9

Potsdamer PlatzFilming in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. Curved glass office towers and a clinker brick high rise ring a paved plaza under a steel and glass tent roof.The Center Potsdamer Platz, Bahntower, Kollhoff-Tower

PullmanFilming in Pullman, Chicago. Rows of brick company rowhouses around a Victorian clock tower factory, and the hotel Road to Perdition used as a 1931 Rock Island mansion.Hotel Florence, The factory and administration building, Market Square

Quartier des SpectaclesFilming in Quartier des Spectacles, Montreal. Granite plazas and concert halls east of downtown, and the metro station a John Wick sequel lit as a New York subway.Place des Festivals, Belgo Building, Place des Arts

RattanakosinFilming in Rattanakosin, Bangkok. Whitewashed palace and temple walls with gilded tiered roofs sit inside a canal loop beside a wide avenue.Sanam Luang, Grand Palace, Wat Phra Kaew

RecoletaFilming in Recoleta, Buenos Aires. Cream stone palaces and embassies line Avenida Alvear, and marble vaults fill the cemetery nearby.Alvear Palace Hotel, Palacio Duhau, Apostolic Nunciature

Rockefeller CenterFilming in Rockefeller Center, Manhattan. Limestone Art Deco towers around a sunken plaza, with an ice rink and a Christmas tree in the center.The rink, lower plaza, Channel Gardens, 30 Rockefeller Plaza

Royal CrescentFilming at the Royal Crescent, Bath. Thirty curved Georgian townhouses behind a single run of giant stone columns, facing open parkland.No.1 Royal Crescent, Royal Crescent Hotel, Royal Victoria Park

Royal Naval DockyardFilming at the Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda. Pale limestone fortress walls and cannon ramparts rise above a harbor lined with stone warehouses.The Keep, Commissioner's House, Clocktower Mall

SaddarFilming in Saddar, Karachi. Yellow stone Gothic Revival buildings and colonnaded shopfronts surround a domed covered market with its own clock tower.Empress Market, Frere Hall, Zaibunnisa Street

Saint-GillesFilming in Saint-Gilles, Brussels. Terraced art nouveau houses with sgraffito panels and iron balconies, including Victor Horta's own house, used as a Paris apartment in The Danish Girl.Horta Museum, Municipal Hall, The Aegidium

San ÁngelFilming in San Ángel, Mexico City. Cobblestone streets and walled colonial estates around the plaza where Dos tipos de cuidado filmed in 1953.Plaza de San Jacinto, Avenida de la Paz, El Carmen

Sanssouci ParkFilming in Sanssouci Park, Potsdam. A single-storey Rococo palace on terraced slopes, with clipped parterres and fountains below it.Sanssouci, New Palace, New Chambers

Santa Fe PlazaFilming in Santa Fe Plaza, Santa Fe. Adobe portals and a Territorial brick corner frame a four hundred year old square, and the La Fonda lobby where Ride the Pink Horse shot in 1947.Palace of the Governors, Catron Block, La Fonda

Savannah Historic DistrictFilming in Savannah's Historic District. Twenty two squares under live oaks and the square where Forrest Gump's bench scenes were shot.Chippewa Square, Monterey Square, Wright Square

SchönebergFilming in Schöneberg, Berlin. A pale stone town hall with a clock tower, and the lobby Babylon Berlin used as its police headquarters.Rathaus Schöneberg, Bayerischer Platz, Haberlandstraße

Sefton ParkFilming in Sefton Park, Liverpool. A boating lake, a glass Palm House and the villas on the roads around it, where the BBC's The War of the Worlds and Netflix's The Irregulars both filmed.Palm House, the boating lake, William Rathbone statue

SinaiaFilming in Sinaia, Romania. Turreted stone and timber villas line a forested hillside below Peleș Castle, with a Belle Epoque casino and monastery at the town's centre.Boulevard Carol I, Sinaia Monastery, Sinaia Casino

South BankFilming in South Bank, London. Raw concrete arts buildings run along the river past the Royal Festival Hall and the Hayward Gallery, and County Hall's stone facade played the Old Bailey on screen.Royal Festival Hall, Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall

South KensingtonFilming in South Kensington, London. Three Victorian museums in terracotta and stone face each other across Exhibition Road, paved kerb to kerb.Exhibition Road, Natural History Museum, Science Museum

South of BroadFilming in South of Broad, Charleston. Single houses with tiered piazzas end at White Point Garden's seawall, and The Notebook used the Calhoun Mansion's real interior as Allie's family summer house.Meeting Street, Lamboll Street, Broad Street

Spandau CitadelFilming in Spandau Citadel, Berlin. A brick Renaissance star fort with four bastions and a wide moat where the Havel and Spree meet.Julius Tower, the gatehouse, Bastion Kronprinz

St. GeorgeFilming in St. George, Staten Island. A clock tower and a columned courthouse stand on the hill above the ferry slips, and the 1929 theatre on Hyatt Street is where School of Rock ends.Staten Island Borough Hall, Richmond County Courthouse, St. George Terminal

St. George'sFilming in St. George's, Bermuda. Pastel stone and stucco buildings line narrow lanes around a colonial harbour square.King's Square, St. George's Town Hall, the stocks and pillory

St. LawrenceFilming in St. Lawrence, Toronto. St. Lawrence Market spans two buildings on Front Street, with the wedge shaped Gooderham Building at the west end.St. Lawrence Market South, St. Lawrence Market North, Gooderham Building

Staré MestoFilming in Staré Mesto, Bratislava. Plastered Baroque townhouses line narrow pedestrian lanes below the castle hill, and the square The Peacemaker used as a Vienna street.Old Town Hall (Stará radnica), St. Martin's Cathedral, Michael's Gate

Stare MiastoFilming in Stare Miasto, Kraków's walled Old Town. A stone market square around a Renaissance cloth hall, filmed for The Double Life of Véronique and Katyń.Cloth Hall, St Mary's Basilica, Barbican

Stari GradFilming in Stari Grad, Belgrade. Knez Mihailova's granite paved shopping street ends at the ramparts of Kalemegdan fortress above the river confluence.Knez Mihailova Street, Kalemegdan Fortress, Republic Square

Stary MokotówFilming in Stary Mokotów, Warsaw. Wide leafy prewar avenues of rendered apartment houses and villas, and the flat where the TVN series Kryminalni was shot.Grażyny Street, Rakowiecka Street, Szuster Palace

Summit AvenueFilming in Summit Avenue, Saint Paul. Red sandstone and brick Gilded Age mansions line a broad boulevard with a planted median and mature trees.James J. Hill House, F. Scott Fitzgerald House, George F. Lindsay House

SuomenlinnaFilming in Suomenlinna, Helsinki. Earth ramparts over granite bastions face the water, beside a dry dock cut into the rock in 1756.The dry dock, King's Gate (Kuninkaanportti), Suomenlinna Church

Sydney Olympic ParkFilming in Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney. Steel stadium roofs rise over paved plazas, and 425 hectares of parkland include mangrove boardwalks and water edges.Accor Stadium, Olympic Boulevard, Lake Belvedere

TempelhofFilming in Tempelhof, Berlin. A single curved limestone terminal over a kilometre long, and the entrance forecourt The Hunger Games used as District 2.Platz der Luftbrücke, Golßener Straße, Tempelhofer Damm

TerézvárosFilming in Terézváros, Budapest. Andrássy Avenue's tree lined boulevard of Neo-Renaissance palaces, and the Opera House auditorium where Red Sparrow staged its opening accident.Hungarian State Opera House, Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Oktogon

The Bishop's PalaceFilming at The Bishop's Palace, Wells. A medieval palace stands behind a stone drawbridge and a water filled moat, with a roofless ruined hall open to the sky and springs that give the city its name.The ruined Great Hall, The moat and 1341 gatehouse, The Bishop's Eye gatehouse

The BundFilming in The Bund, Shanghai. A curved row of 1920s and 1930s stone banking halls and hotels lines the river promenade, facing the glass towers of Pudong across the water.HSBC Building, Customs House, Peace Hotel

The CircusFilming at The Circus, Bath. Three curved terraces close into a full ring, their columns stacked in three classical orders around a tree lined garden.Brock Street, Gay Street, Bennett Street

The HoeFilming on The Hoe, Plymouth. An open grass headland runs along a stone sea wall past a red and white striped lighthouse tower and a granite naval memorial, with Victorian terraces set back along the promenade.Smeaton's Tower, Plymouth Naval Memorial, Armada Memorial

The LoopFilming in the Loop, Chicago. Stone and steel towers rise on a tight grid under elevated tracks, and LaSalle Street is the canyon The Dark Knight closed for a truck flip.LaSalle Street, Chicago Board of Trade Building, Daley Plaza

The RocksFilming in The Rocks, Sydney. Sandstone bond stores and pubs from the 1840s on cobbled lanes, and the corner of Cumberland Street where Dark City shot a scene.Argyle Cut, Campbell's Stores, Union Bond Store

ToxtethFilming in Toxteth, Liverpool. Brick terraces run off Princes Road, a boulevard lined with a Grade I synagogue and a Greek Orthodox church. Powis Street is where Peaky Blinders built Watery Lane.Princes Road Synagogue, Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas, Al-Rahma Mosque

Undercliffe CemeteryFilming in Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford. Grey granite obelisks and stone mausoleums line a broad hillside promenade with views over the city.The promenade, The obelisk at the west end, The northern terraced section

University CircleFilming in University Circle, Cleveland. White marble museum facades and a Gothic university quad, with the campus Air Force One used as Kazakhstan's presidential palace.Cleveland Museum of Art, Wade Lagoon, Severance Hall

Upper East SideFilming on the Upper East Side, Manhattan. Limestone and brownstone townhouses line the cross streets, and Ocean's Eight shot its heist night inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Park Avenue, Madison Avenue, 907 Fifth Avenue

UptownFilming in Uptown, Chicago. Terracotta movie palace facades line Broadway and Lawrence, and the Aragon Ballroom played the theater in Batman v Superman.Aragon Ballroom, Riviera Theatre, Uptown Theatre

VallettaFilming in Valletta, Malta. Limestone bastions drop to the Grand Harbour, and some balconied streets run down to the water.Fort St Elmo, Republic Street, Upper Barrakka Gardens

Valley GardensFilming in Valley Gardens, Harrogate. Formal lawns and a 1933 red brick colonnade fill a Victorian park in Low Harrogate.Magnesia Well café, Old Magnesia Well Pump Room, Sun Pavilion

Van NuysFilming in Van Nuys, Los Angeles. An Art Deco government tower and courthouse sit at one end of Van Nuys Boulevard, with a general aviation airport a few blocks northwest.Van Nuys City Hall, Van Nuys Courthouse, Van Nuys Government Center post office

VárnegyedFilming in Várnegyed, Budapest. A walled hilltop of Baroque townhouses on cobbled streets, with Buda Castle at one end and Fisherman's Bastion looking across the river to the Parliament.Buda Castle, Matthias Church, Fisherman's Bastion

VárosligetFilming in Városliget, Budapest. A copied medieval castle sits across the lake from a Neo-Baroque bath house, inside the park where Gemini Man and The Witcher both used the same courtyard.Heroes' Square, Vajdahunyad Castle, Museum of Fine Arts

Vasilyevsky IslandFilming on Vasilyevsky Island, Saint Petersburg. A granite embankment holds a domed former exchange building and two 32 meter columns where the river splits into two channels, behind a grid of numbered Line streets.Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange (Birzha), Rostral Columns, Twelve Collegia

Vicars' CloseFilming on Vicars' Close, Wells. A single cobbled lane runs between matching stone terraces of tall chimneys, narrowing toward a chapel at one end and a hall at the other.Vicars' Hall, Chain Gate, Vicars' Chapel and Library

Victoria QuarterFilming in Victoria Quarter, Leeds. Glazed Victorian arcades in marble, mosaic and terracotta, where the BBC filmed part of The ABC Murders at County Arcade.County Arcade, Cross Arcade, Queen Victoria Street

Vieux LyonFilming in Vieux Lyon, Lyon. Ochre stone townhouses rise four and five storeys above narrow cobbled lanes, with spiral stair towers behind courtyard doors.Rue Saint-Jean, Tour Rose, Musées Gadagne

Vieux-MontréalFilming in Vieux-Montréal, Montreal. Grey limestone bank halls and warehouses line narrow cobbled streets, with a twin towered basilica over Place d'Armes and a stone quay along the river.Rue Saint-Paul, Notre-Dame Basilica, Saint-Sulpice Seminary

VyšehradFilming in Vyšehrad, Prague 2. Brick Baroque ramparts and grass earthworks ring a hilltop fort above the Vltava, where Interview with the Vampire filmed a confrontation against the fortress wall.Basilica of St Peter and St Paul, Rotunda of St Martin, Vyšehrad Cemetery and Slavín

West AdamsFilming in West Adams, Los Angeles. Turn of the century mansions in a mix of revival styles line wide streets whose boundary nobody quite agrees on.Adams Boulevard, Guasti Villa, Lucy Wheeler house

WestmountFilming in Westmount, Quebec. Grey stone houses climb curving hillside streets down to the dark glass towers of Westmount Square, filmed for a documentary on Mies van der Rohe.Belvedere Road, Westmount Public Library, Westmount City Hall

WhitehallFilming in Whitehall, London. Portland stone ministry frontages with giant order columns run south from Trafalgar Square, and the Old War Office corner played MI6 headquarters in three Bond films.Horse Guards, Banqueting House, The Cenotaph

Whitley BayFilming in Whitley Bay, Newcastle upon Tyne. A domed white pavilion stands on the seafront, with red brick terraces behind it.The Spanish City, Rendezvous Cafe, Whitley Bay Ice Rink

WiedenFilming in Wieden, Vienna's 4th district. Karlskirche's domed front rises over a reflecting pool at one end of the square, with the Naschmarkt running the length of Rechte Wienzeile close by. Sachertorte used a nearby street for its shared flat exterior.Karlskirche, Naschmarkt, Vienna University of Technology

WoolwichFilming in Woolwich, London. Georgian and Victorian ordnance buildings sit behind a brick wall in the Royal Arsenal, and the station Jason Bourne used as Athens.Royal Brass Foundry, Dial Arch, Grand Store

YeouidoFilming in Yeouido, Seoul. Glass bank towers and a domed government building share one island in the Han River.National Assembly Building, 63 Building, KBS building

Zona ColonialFilming in Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo. Cobbled streets of pastel colonial houses, a Gothic cathedral on Parque Colón and fort walls on the Ozama River.Alcázar de Colón, Fortaleza Ozama, Catedral Primada de América