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The United States, state by state

All 50 US states, one by one — from the Nevada desert to the forests of Maine, always connected with your data eSIM.

🇺🇸 California

Los Angeles's Griffith Observatory hosts the climactic showdown of “Rebel Without a Cause” (1955), starring James Dean.

Marfa, in the Trans-Pecos, was the main backdrop of the Coen brothers' Oscar-winning “No Country for Old Men” (2007).

🇺🇸 Florida

Everglades National Park was filmed in Technicolor for Nicholas Ray's “Wind Across the Everglades” (1958), starring Burl Ives.

🇺🇸 New York

The farmhouse in John Krasinski's “A Quiet Place” (2018) was filmed in Pawling, Dutchess County, in upstate New York.

🇺🇸 Nevada

The ghost town of Nelson served as a backdrop for “3000 Miles to Graceland” (2001), with Kevin Costner and Kurt Russell.

🇺🇸 Hawaii

Kaaawa Valley at Kualoa Ranch on Oahu hosted the Gallimimus stampede in Jurassic Park (1993); the fallen tree still stands there.

🇺🇸 Arizona

On US Route 163, Forrest Gump (1994) ends his cross-country run facing the Monument Valley buttes, at the spot now called Forrest Gump Point.

🇺🇸 Colorado

The plush Danbury Hotel in Dumb and Dumber (1994) is really the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, which also inspired The Shining's Overlook.

🇺🇸 Washington

In North Bend, Twede's Cafe plays the Double R Diner of Twin Peaks (1990), where Agent Cooper savors his famous slice of cherry pie.

🇺🇸 Oregon

In Astoria, the Walsh house at 368 38th Street is the Goonies' (1985) hideout as they chase One-Eyed Willy's pirate treasure.

🇺🇸 Louisiana

Easy Rider's (1969) acid-trip scene was shot in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans, among the above-ground tombs.

🇺🇸 Illinois

The Dark Knight's (2008) opening bank heist was filmed inside Chicago's Old Post Office at 404 West Harrison Street.

🇺🇸 Massachusetts

Robin Williams' monologue to Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting (1997) was filmed on a bench in Boston's Public Garden.

🇺🇸 Georgia

Forrest Gump's (1994) bench scene, where he tells his life story, was filmed in Chippewa Square in Savannah.

🇺🇸 Tennessee

All the concert footage in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) was shot at the Ryman Auditorium, the Grand Ole Opry's cradle in Nashville.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) opens at Arches National Park, on Double Arch, near Moab.

🇺🇸 Alaska

Into the Wild (2007) was filmed near the Stampede Trail, where Chris McCandless's Bus 142 became a pilgrimage site.

🇺🇸 Montana

A River Runs Through It (1992) was filmed on the Gallatin River, near Bozeman, immortalizing fly fishing.

🇺🇸 Wyoming

Shane (1953) was filmed in Jackson Hole, at the foot of the Teton Range.

🇺🇸 New Mexico

Breaking Bad (2008-2013) was filmed in Albuquerque; the car wash and the White house became cult landmarks.

🇺🇸 North Carolina

Dirty Dancing (1987) was shot at Lake Lure near Asheville, whose waters host the film's famous final lift rehearsal scene.

🇺🇸 South Carolina

The Notebook (2004) was filmed at Boone Hall Plantation near Charleston, where Noah's car hitting the iron gate was a real accident.

🇺🇸 Virginia

Spielberg's Lincoln (2012) was shot at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, which stood in for both the U.S. Capitol and the White House.

🇺🇸 Pennsylvania

Rocky (1976) immortalized the 72 steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which Stallone climbs with fists raised in the iconic scene.

🇺🇸 Michigan

Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino (2008) was shot entirely in Detroit and Highland Park, with many local residents cast in the film.

Part of the final battle of The Avengers (2012), set in New York, was actually shot on East 9th Street in Cleveland.

🇺🇸 Indiana

The 1921 Hoosier Gym in Knightstown stood in as the Huskers' home court in the basketball film Hoosiers (1986), starring Gene Hackman.

🇺🇸 Wisconsin

The bank robbery scene in Public Enemies (2009), with Johnny Depp as John Dillinger, was shot at the former-bank Milwaukee County Historical Center.

🇺🇸 Minnesota

Minneapolis club First Avenue hosted the concert scenes of Purple Rain (1984), where Prince performs on a stage that still stands today.

🇺🇸 Missouri

Kansas City's Union Station and the 18th and Vine district set the scene for Robert Altman's film Kansas City (1996), set in 1934.

🇺🇸 Alabama

Jordan Peele's horror film “Get Out” (2017) shot its basement scene at Barton Academy, 504 Government Street, in Mobile.

🇺🇸 Mississippi

“The Help” (2011) filmed about 95% of its scenes in Greenwood, a Delta town that stood in for Jackson on screen.

🇺🇸 Arkansas

“True Grit” is set on the Arkansas line, yet the 1969 John Wayne western was shot largely in the Colorado Rockies.

🇺🇸 Oklahoma

Scorsese's “Killers of the Flower Moon” (2023) rebuilt 1920s Fairfax along the main street of Pawhuska, in Osage country.

🇺🇸 Kansas

“Picnic” (1955), starring William Holden, was shot on location in Hutchinson, Halstead and Nickerson, deep in small-town Kansas.

🇺🇸 Kentucky

Horse-racing drama Secretariat (2010) shot the Derby win at Churchill Downs in Louisville and the Belmont victory at Keeneland Race Course.

🇺🇸 West Virginia

John Sayles' Matewan (1987), about a 1920 coal miners' strike, was shot in the old coal town of Thurmond, deep in the New River Gorge.

🇺🇸 Maryland

The Blair Witch Project (1999) shot most of its forest wanderings in Seneca Creek State Park, in Montgomery County.

🇺🇸 New Jersey

In The Godfather (1972), the line “Leave the gun, take the cannoli” was filmed in Jersey City, on what is now Liberty State Park.

🇺🇸 Connecticut

Mystic Pizza (1988), Julia Roberts' breakout, is set in Mystic and shot scenes at the bascule drawbridge and Mystic Seaport.

Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth appears in the 1999 film “Snow Falling on Cedars”, shot during the famous Maine ice storm.

🇺🇸 Vermont

The haunted house from Tim Burton's horror comedy “Beetlejuice” (1988) was filmed in East Corinth, a tiny, well-preserved Vermont hamlet.

🇺🇸 New Hampshire

The thriller “The Good Son” (1993), starring Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood, was filmed around North Conway and Jackson in the White Mountains.

🇺🇸 Rhode Island

“The Great Gatsby” (1974), with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, was filmed at Rosecliff mansion in Newport, on its terrace and in its ballroom.

🇺🇸 Delaware

“Dead Poets Society” (1989) was filmed in Delaware, at St. Andrew's School in Middletown and along the cobblestone streets of historic New Castle.

The baseball diamond from Field of Dreams (1989) is real, carved into a cornfield in Dyersville, and you can still visit and play catch there today.

🇺🇸 Nebraska

Alexander Payne's black-and-white road movie Nebraska (2013) winds through real small towns across the state on its way to Lincoln.

🇺🇸 North Dakota

Despite its title, the Coens' Fargo (1996) filmed almost nothing in Fargo; the crew moved up to Grand Forks chasing snow.

🇺🇸 South Dakota

Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959) climaxes on Mount Rushmore, but the state barred filming, so the scene was shot on a Hollywood model.

Napoleon Dynamite (2004) was shot in the director's real hometown of Preston, in southeastern Idaho, on a budget of just 400,000 dollars.