8 New Movie Locations You Can Visit For 2025

Though Jon M. Chu’s blockbuster is so stylized and glossy, it’s easy to mistake it for pure CGI, it actually relied mostly on practical sets. Belmont Nurseries near King's Lynn in Norfolk, England planted 25 acres of tulips, about 9 million bulbs, to make Munchkinland come to life. The field opens in the spring and you can frolic in the flowers yourself.

"Gladiator II" may have been set in the Colosseum, but just like its predecessor, "Gladiator," battle scenes were filmed at Fort Ricasoli in Malta at the Grand Harbour of Valletta at Kalkara. The fort is currently closed to the public, but you can catch a peek from the beach and other vantage points with guided tours of the area. Also check out Malta Film Studios. They’re famous for their ginormous water tanks — some of the biggest in the world — and these tanks were used to film that fantastic water scene where the Colosseum is flooded and filled with sharks. The studio can be visited via private tours.

In the dramedy "A Real Pain," two cousins (Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin) travel across Poland in search of their family’s history. To visit the locations in the movie, a road and rail trip is also in order. Start in Warsaw at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, a memorial to Jewish fighters who opposed the Nazis in 1943. Walk over to Grzybów Square, part of the Warsaw Ghetto. Lastly in Warsaw is the Warsaw Uprising Monument, commemorating a 1944 uprising against the Nazis. In Lublin, explore the city’s medieval castle and Old Jewish Cemetery. The Majdanek Concentration Camp provided one of the film’s most sombre scenes and a two-hour tour is available for visitors over 14.

Even though "The Brutalist" is not a true story, it features some very real locations around Europe. In the fictional tale of architect László Toth (Adrien Brody), most of the story takes place in America, but it was shot mostly in Budapest, Hungary. Andrássy Castle in Tóalmás stood in for Harrison Van Buren’s (Guy Pearce) Pennsylvania mansion while an Italy-set party rages in Budapest’s catacombs. As for the building Toth designs for Van Buren? Check out the József Gruber Water Reservoir, one of two buildings that played the Van Buren Institute on film.

It seems a given that the filming locations for "Dune 2" would involve deserts. Wadi Rum in Jordan, a UNESCO World Heritage site and known as the Valley of the Moon, portrayed the desert planet of Arrakis. Liwa Oasis in Abu Dhabi was chosen for its sandy red dunes. Both are otherworldly sites worth visiting, but bring water since stillsuits are rather hard to find on Earth.

The Vatican is the center of the action in "Conclave," a film about the cardinals selecting a new pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Most of the film was not made at the actual Vatican, but you can still visit locations like the Sistine Chapel to see the real deal recreated on screen. Besides soundstages that carefully doubled as Vatican City, other locations around Rome subbed in such as the atrium of Casa Santa Marta at Carlo Forlanini Hospital, the Museo della Civiltà Romana, Palazzo del Commendatore and the Great Hall of the Salone di Pietro da Cortona. In Casserta, check out Palazzo Reale, Piazza Carlo III, which has also played the Vatican on film twice before in “Mission Impossible III” and “Angels and Demons.”

“I’m Still Here,” based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s memoir, explores Brazil’s military past and was also filmed there. The film focuses in on the Paiva family and their home, which was filmed in Urca, known for its gorgeous views of both the bay and mountains. Stop by the beaches of Leblon and Ipanema, featured in the film and settle into the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden and end in downtown Rio de Janeiro to see Confeitaria Manon.

This Dracula-esque horror film went right to the source, shooting in modern day Transylvania, AKA Romania. Corvin Castle, one of Romania’s Seven Wonders, serves as Nosferatu’s home. Pernštejn Castle in Prague provided additional shots while Rožmitál Castle was used for interiors. The The Invalidovna complex is where Count Orlok’s crypt was kept and Prachov Rocks in Czechia, outside of Prague, is the creepy mountain pass Thomas (Nicholas Hoult) walks by.