15 Fascinating Facts About Where Iconic Scenes Were Filmed
![15 Fascinating Facts About Where Iconic Scenes Were Filmed](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/2/7/783827_320x180.jpg)
We all have our favorite movies and television shows. We may have favorite lines, actors, scenes or moments. The fact is, most of us end up overlooking the actual locations where our favorite stories are filmed. This is ultimately though, where some of the most interesting stories come from.
We found more than a dozen fascinating facts about the locations iconic scenes were filmed in.
For example, Midsommar wasn't actually shot in Sweden, despite being set there. We bet you didn't know that in the Bond flick Skyfall, M's apartment was actually owned and lived in by famous Bond composer John Barry. Barry composed music for 11 Bond films, including Goldfinger in 1964!
Turns out, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood went to significant lengths to get the feel of being on the set of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood right.
Want to learn more? Don't just sit there, scroll on down! We've got the full story, plus 14 others:
![The interiors of Bridgerton House in Bridgerton were shot in an officers' mess. The building, Halton House, is on the grounds of Royal Air Force base Halton and serves as, well, a mess for officers at that base. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/2/783842.jpg)
Source: ScreenRant
![Although Midsommar is set in Sweden, they didn't shoot any of it there. Apparently, it's because they couldn't have shot for more than eight hours a day in Sweden -- so they filmed just outside Budapest, Hungary. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/1/783841.jpg)
Source: ScreenRant
![The serene tropical island in Crazy Rich Asians isn't like that at all in reality. It looks like a secluded, middle-of-nowhere spot but the real Sentosa Island has a ton of shops, paved walkways, and a whole water park. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/0/783840.jpg)
Source: Yahoo
![The pool in Daniel's apartment complex in The Karate Kid was full in real life. 5 Although the complex looked run-down and shabby, the pool, at least, was full - they just drained it for the movie to make the complex extra bleak. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/8/783838.jpg)
Source: LA Weekly
![M's apartment in Skyfall was owned by Bond composer John Barry. Barry composed music for 11 Bond films, including Goldfinger in 1964 - his last one was The Living Daylights, over 20 years later. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/6/783836.jpg)
Source: ClassicFM, henryandjames.co.uk
![They filmed The Grand Budapest Hotel in an abandoned mall. It's Gorlitzer Warenhaus in Gorlitz, Germany-- it had the height and scale, the grandness, we needed to represent the hotel, said producer Jeremy Dawson. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/7/783837.jpg)
Source: LocationsHub
![The police station from RoboCop is actually a concert hall in Dallas in real life. The exact address is Sons of Herman Hall, 3414 Elm St., but it looks 100% unrecognizable without the quasi-futuristic '80s police gadgets. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/5/783835.jpg)
Source: Dallas Film Commission
![Luke's island from The Last Jedi was a real-life monk retreat for centuries. From somewhere between the 6th to 8th century, up to the late 12th or early 13th century, Gaelic Christian monks would go to Michael Skellig for extreme isolation. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/3/783833.jpg)
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
![The high school from Back to the Future is where Richard Nixon went. WHITTIER USION HIGH SCHOOL It's Whittier High School in Whittier, CA, and ol' Tricky Dick transferred there in his junior year. He ran for student body president- and lost. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/9/783839.jpg)
Source: Discover Los Angeles, Whittier Museum
![Orange is the New Black was filmed at a psychiatric hospital for children. The exterior shots, including the greenhouse and the fences, were shot at the Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center -- in Orangeburg, NY. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/4/783834.jpg)
Source: PopSugar
![Obi-Wan's home from Star Wars is now where fishermen keep their supplies. The building, in Tunisia, is actually very close to the Mediterranean Sea - which apparently makes it convenient for fishermen to keep their stuff there. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/2/783832.jpg)
Source: StarWars.com
![The Black Gold offices from Wonder Woman 1984 were a real corporate HQ. They were the HQ of London's Legal & General financial services company, used by 1,500 employees. But the building has been vacant since 2017. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/1/783831.jpg)
Source: Dirt.com
![Some of Space Jam 2 was filmed at the house of an LA Lakers hater. TUNE Souad NBA superfan James Goldstein, who roots against the LA Lakers, let LeBron James film at his home - the Lakers thing aside, they've been friends for years. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/0/783830.jpg)
Source: Yahoo
![A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood was filmed in Fred Rogers' actual studio. They built the whole set for the movie in the old Fred Rogers Studio at WQED-TV in Pittsburgh - nothing else actually felt right, the production designer said. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/2/9/783829.jpg)
Source: Yahoo
![The grand Navarro estate in Ozark was actually a chapel and mausoleum. Located in Westview Cemetery in Atlanta, it's one of the largest in the U.S., and it's pretty popular among tourists (and filmmakers too). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/2/8/783828.jpg)
Source: Atlanta InTown Paper