Since February 8th, with Google Maps, virtually every corner of the earth has been able to be traveled virtually by road map or satellite image for exactly 15 years. This is not only practical for chronically disoriented globetrotters, cinema fans and serial junkies can also use the online map service for sightseeing of a different kind. Here are the ten most important addresses – from ghost hunters to abandoned Kevins to the Black Forest Clinic.
Friends, sex and nobility
Of course, the most famous neighboring apartments in TV history should not be missing. For ten seasons almost everything that didn't take place in the Central Perk happened in one of the two "Friends" apartments. If you want to walk in the footsteps of Chandler (Matthew Perry, 50), Rachel (Jennifer Aniston, 50) and the rest of your friends, you have to travel to 90 Bedford Street in the New York district of Manhattan.
If you travel the Big Apple, you can also visit Carrie Bradshaws (Sarah Jessica Parker, 54) chic place to stay – at least from the outside. Also in Manhattan is the apartment of the shoe fetishist from "Sex and the City" at 66 Perry Street.
If you want to see how TV nobility lives, you should pay a visit to the small town of Newbury in the English county of Berkshire. The family home of Count and Countess von Grantham from Downton Abbey can be found there. The popular British series was filmed in Highclere Castle, a mansion that was rebuilt to its current appearance in the mid-19th century. It is located approximately six kilometers south of Newbury.
If you don't feel like British Earls, you can visit a US prince. As "Prince of Bel-Air" actor Will Smith (51) matured to one of the greatest Hollywood stars around the turn of the millennium. Anyone wanting to visit the place where he drove his uncle Phil (James L. Avery, 1945-2013) as William "Will" Smith into weekly madness must go to 251 North Bristol Avenue in Los Angeles.
If you don't want to travel around in world history for series sightseeing, you can also stay in Germany. Then the Glottertal (sanatorium 1.) in Baden-Württemberg would be worth a visit. There the more than 70 episodes and two television films of the soap opera "The Black Forest Clinic" by Prof. Klaus Brinkmann (Klausjürgen Wussow, 1929-2007) were created.
Wizards, ghosts, aliens
Manhattan is also worth a visit for film fans. At least if you like the cult comedy "Ghostbusters" and always wanted to see the ghost hunter headquarters of Peter Vankman (Bill Murray, 69), Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd, 67), Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis, 1944-2014) and Winston Zeddmore (Ernie Hudson, 74) looks in reality. The famous former fire station is at 4 Moore Street.
Beware, meanwhile, long fingers that come too close to 671 Lincoln Avenue in the US community of Winnetka (Illinois). Finally, there is the house in which a certain Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin, 39) once set up all kinds of painful traps for two burglars.
The county of Berkshire is also interesting for cineastes. If you are just coming from Downton Abbey, you should definitely visit Bracknell (Winkfield Row). There is a house there, which is very important for "Harry Potter" fans. At "Privet Drive Number 4" the future magician died a bleak existence with his foster family, the Dursleys.
If a cute alien wants to "phone home", the phone could also ring in Tujunga, California. In 1982, "E.T. – The Alien" lived with his philanthropist Elliott (Henry Thomas, 48) for some time in Lonzo Street 7121 there.
Horror aficionados, on the other hand, cannot avoid a trip to Eses Park in Colorado. There (East Wonderview Avenue 333) is the magnificent The Stanley Hotel, which Stephen King fans should be more familiar with under the name Overlook Hotel. It was here that Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) staged Jack Nicholsons (82) Falling Insane in his film adaptation of "The Shining".