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Visit Wuthering Heights filming locations and more unforgettable 2026 screen sets
Big 2026 releases are turning real places into must-visit movie moments, from windswept English moors to sunlit Mediterranean coastlines. Here are the screen destinations worth building a trip around.
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Travel like a location scout in 2026: chase Brontë moorland for Wuthering Heights, build a city break around UK blockbuster backdrops for Avengers: Doomsday, mix Mediterranean coastline with rugged Scotland for Nolan’s The Odyssey, pair a sci-fi city break with otherworldly day trips for The Mandalorian & Grogu, and book UK coastal and countryside escapes for Andor (Dorset) and 28 Years Later (Northumberland).
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If you love holidays with a story attached, 2026 is a great year to travel like a location scout. Think: Gothic romance landscapes, blockbuster-scale city backdrops, and coastlines that look like other planets. Use this list to plan a break where the views already feel like a film set.
Wuthering Heights | Yorkshire and Kent, England
A fresh Wuthering Heights adaptation is bringing full-throttle romance back to the moors. If you want that brooding, windswept energy in real life, head for Haworth and the surrounding Brontë country, where big skies, stone villages and open moorland do most of the acting.
Make a weekend of it: walk a moorland trail for the atmosphere, warm up in a proper pub afterwards, and treat it like a slow travel break with dramatic scenery baked in. Some production reports also point to stately-home interiors, which is your excuse to bolt a house-and-gardens day onto the trip.
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Base yourself around Haworth for moors-and-villages exploring, then add a second night somewhere with easy rail links so you can do a stately-home day without driving.
The Odyssey | Sicily islands and a wild Scottish coast
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey looks set to be a proper travel poster of a film. Reports and local coverage have placed filming on Sicily’s islands, including Favignana and the Aeolian Islands, and on Scotland’s northeast coast around Findlater Castle.
Where to go for the most cinematic feel
Sicily, Italy
- Favignana (Egadi Islands), for bright-blue water, sea caves, and dramatic boat-day scenery.
- Aeolian Islands, for volcanic silhouettes, black-sand beaches, and that mythic “end-of-the-map” energy.
- Scala dei Turchi and the Val di Noto area, for white cliffs and ancient-stone backdrops if you want your photos to look instantly epic.
Scotland
- Findlater Castle, Moray, for cliff-edge ruins and big North Sea drama, the kind of place that looks like a myth even on a grey day.
- Cullen and the Moray coast, as a base for sea air, rugged walks, and quick hops to small harbours that feel “ancient voyage” without trying too hard.
If you want to copy the film’s contrast, do it as two short breaks: a Sicily islands long weekend for sun and sea, then a separate Scotland coast escape for stormy atmosphere and cliff walks.
The Mandalorian & Grogu | California, USA
The Mandalorian & Grogu was filmed in California, primarily at Manhattan Beach Studios, where the production used Lucasfilm’s StageCraft “Volume” technology to create its digital worlds. But several real California landscapes were also used to ground the galaxy in somewhere tangible.
If you want to visit places that genuinely connect to the Star Wars universe on screen, you are looking at Southern California desert and state park scenery.
Actual filming locations you can visit
Death Valley National Park
The stark salt flats, dune fields and eroded badlands of Death Valley were used in earlier Mandalorian seasons and reflect the real desert terrain that underpins the series’ look. Zabriskie Point and the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes are the most recognisable backdrops if you want that vast, empty-planet scale.
Trona Pinnacles, California
Located in the Mojave Desert, these jagged limestone spires have long been a favourite sci-fi filming location. Their alien silhouette makes them feel ready-made for Star Wars terrain.
Manhattan Beach Studios (exterior only)
While the majority of the film was shot on the StageCraft Volume inside this studio complex, it is a significant part of modern Star Wars production history. You cannot tour the sets, but it is worth noting as the technical birthplace of the film’s environments.
If you are planning a trip, base yourself in Las Vegas or Palm Springs for access to Death Valley and the Mojave Desert locations. Go early or late in the day for the light that gives those landscapes their cinematic scale, and always check heat and safety guidance before heading into the desert.
Andor | Dorset, England
Andor earns its place here because it makes real landscapes feel like lived-in sci-fi, not glossy fantasy. Dorset’s Jurassic Coast is perfect for that: rugged cliffs, dramatic sea views, and walks that feel cinematic even when you are just out for a packed-lunch hike.
Make it a UK long weekend with a coastal base, sunrise walks, and a pub lunch. The best bits are outdoors, so it is also a great shoulder-season trip.
28 Years Later | Northumberland and Northern England
Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later leans into eerie, empty, beautiful Britain, and Northumberland is made for that look. Tidal islands, wide beaches and remote countryside give you that end-of-the-world calm without going far from home.
The latest edition, out this year, leans into the same bleak aesthetic, but the real countryside is anything but - charming towns such as Hexham and sweeping, empty landscapes in by far England's least-crowded county.
If you are planning a visit, check tide times if you are heading anywhere with causeways, and pack for fast-changing weather. The payoff is huge: landscapes that feel cinematic even when the only sound is wind and seabirds.
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