13 Places Every Movie Buff Has to Visit
| April 9, 2015
Want to see the real-life places your favorite silver screen scenes were filmed? Grab your passport, pack your bag, and head out to one of these 13 famous places:
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1. Jurassic Park – Kauai, Hawaii
Best approached by helicopter, the green slopes of the Kauai Na Pala coast are the legendary hilltop views that welcome paleontologists Ellie Sattler and Alan Grant to the dinosaur-filled island of Jurassic Park. Dinosaurs are not the only beasts that roam this island however, in the 1976 version of King Kong, Kauai was the setting of Skull Island where the simian giant was born.
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