The Lord of the Rings Film Trail
New Zealand · 6 filming locations
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VistaSpots groups iconic real-world spots into collectible collections — the locations behind a film, a city's landmarks, a destination's highlights — and turns each one into a postcard you earn by going there. The film and anime trails below map the real places behind The Lord of the Rings, Forrest Gump and Spirited Away; the city guides cover the 16 host cities of the 2026 World Cup; and destinations like the Atlantic archipelago of Cabo Verde stand on their own.
Screen tourism
Film & anime trails
A film trail collects the real places behind a story — the Hobbiton set outside Matamata, the Savannah square where Forrest Gump waits for a bus, the 1894 bathhouse in Matsuyama that Studio Ghibli drew on for Spirited Away. Each guide names the scene, the place it was actually shot or drawn from, and where to stand to see it the way the film does. Animation gets said plainly: Spirited Away has no filming locations, only inspirations, and that guide grades how strong each link is.
Football Trail 2026
2026 World Cup host cities
The 2026 World Cup is hosted across 16 cities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. These guides cover the landmarks worth seeing in each — from the Golden Gate Bridge and the Hollywood Sign to Estadio Azteca and Niagara Falls — and every spot is a collectible postcard in VistaSpots once you visit and check in on-site. Below are the 8 host cities live in VistaSpots today.
San Francisco
California · 6 spots to collect
Los Angeles
California · 5 spots to collect
New York City
New York · 6 spots to collect
Vancouver
British Columbia · 4 spots to collect
Toronto
Ontario · 4 spots to collect
Seattle
Washington · 3 spots to collect
Miami
Florida · 2 spots to collect
Mexico City
5 spots to collect
More to explore
More destinations
Beyond the tournament, VistaSpots collects the iconic spots of destinations worth a trip in their own right — starting with the Atlantic archipelago of Cabo Verde.
VistaSpots is independent and not affiliated with FIFA, the World Cup, stadium operators, or any official tournament organization, nor with any film studio, distributor, or rights holder in the works named on this site. Film and place names are used descriptively, to identify real locations that are open to the public.