Movie Locations

The Colosseum (or Coliseum) was built in 72 AD and is 160 ft high with 80 entrances. It held more than 50,000 spectators and was actively used for gladiator fights for 400 years. The Colosseum obviously featured in Ridley Scott's…

The Millennium Dome is a large dome on the Greenwich peninsula in the Docklands area of London. The dome was built to house a millennium celebration "exhibition" that featured the almost-stolen De Beers Millennium Star diamond and a bunch of…

The City Hall of Toronto has two towers of different heights, each a semicircle that from above looks a lot like a boomerang. You may also recognise the building as the headquarters of the Umbrella corporation in the film Resident…

This is the Sunsphere in the 1982 World's Fair Park, Knoxville, Tennessee. It's a 266 foot high structure, topped with a 74 foot sphere made of bronze-coated reflective glass. The Sunsphere was featured in the Simpson's once (Nelson accidentally toppled…

The Mellon Arena is home to the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins and more importantly was the setting for the 1995 Van Damme "classic" - Sudden Death. The arena was even on the movie poster along with an exploding helicopter. The "radio…

This is the Barringer Meteor Crater, outside Flagstaff, Arizona. It's the result of a 300,000 ton meteor coliding with the Earth around 50,000 years ago. The crater is about 1.5 kilometers in diameter and 170 metres deep. It was the…