Is there any place you would like to visit having been influenced by a book or film?

I went to Dresden primarily because I had read Slaughterhouse Five.

Shannara.

Capeside, Massachusetts

The Dervish House, by Ian McDonald, made me want to visit Istanbul.

I’m going to move to New Zealand and become a hobbit.

After reading The City & the City by China Miéville, I’d like to visit the cities of Besźel and Ul Qoma.

@Seek_Kolinahr Is having big feet an entry requirement into New Zealand, and should I get your autograph now?

I prefer surprise to preconceived ideas about a place. For example, I’d seen photographs of the Parthenon but didn’t know how it was situated. I loved the surprise. I hadn’t known the color of the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower or the Golden Gate Bridge. I know I could learn more about places I’ve traveled ahead of time, but I don’t want to feel like I’m just checking off places I’ve read about, which is how I felt when I first saw the Arc de Triumphe and the Eiffel Tower. I also believe in finding my own serendipitous finds rather than searching for someone else’s

National Buffalo Chicken Wing Festival, from the movie Osmosis Jones.

Risa.

I’ve yearned to visit or perhaps even live in the Hebrides off the west coast of mainland Scotland ever since the first time I watched the 1945 film I Know Where I’m Going. No telling what it looks like today, almost 70 years after the film was made.

Cornwall because of The Shell Seekers.

Reading Homer, Sophocles, Plato, and Aristotle makes me want to visit Greece.

I want to see the reconstructed Globe in London because of reading William Shakespeare.

A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle makes me want to visit Provence, France.

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster and David Lean’s film adaptation of it make me want to see many places on the subcontinent.

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poetry draws me to Maine.

I’ve seen all the films of Pedro Almodovar and wish to see Spain.

David Lean’s film Summertime drives me to see the canals and palaces of Venice.

I wish to see sub-Saharan Africa from reading Amos Tutola’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

I could go on and on.

I moved to WA State, partially inspired by my love for Tom Robbins

Having read the Inspector Montalbano mysteries, I want to go to Sicily.

I did go to Western Massachusetts and the Berkshires after reading Last of the Mohicans. And visiting the desert Southwest after reading Edward Abbey was neat, or the Rockies in Montana and Wyoming after Ivan Doig’s novels.

But I often choose books because of the locale, rather than locale from books.

Jorge Luis Borges made me want to visit Argentina.

I think this question was already asked recently…

Mackinac Island in Michigan after watching “Somewhere in Time”

I went to Paris because of Les Miserables. Saw a lot of the locations from the novel. Of course, the places where (fictional) people once lived in near poverty are now worth at least several hundred thousand euros.

I went to Vienna on the same trip, after falling in love with it because of some YA book I read in high school.

Then again, as much as I love me some good old 19th C Romantic/Gothic novels, I have absolutely no desire to go traipsing around the English countryside checking in at old mansions.

Westeros :P

But in all seriousness, reading stories set in Ireland made me interested in going there, including those by James Joyce. Still have yet to go :)

I want to go to Shang Ri La.

I want to go to that hidden valley that’s in the middle of some mountains, and the only way to get to the valley is to go through a long, scary cave. The Black Stallion series.

Port Isaac (aka Port Wenn) Cornwall, England, because of Doc Martin.

@DominicX As much as I love ASOIAF, Westeros is one place I NEVER want to visit.

@Haleth I know; I’d love to see the landscape and the castles and cities, but in all honestly, it sounds horrible. lol And I’d probably be eviscerated and have my head cut off within 10 minutes of being there. :P

Transylvania.

I used to want to go to Costa Rica because of Eva Ibbotson’s “Journey to a River Sea”. I finally went, almost three years ago – it was great.

@Seek_Kolinahr and we will be very pleased to have you : ^)