Movie-inspired road trips

In recent years, visiting movie settings has become very popular. Remember how New Zealand starting calling itself Middle Earth after the

Lord of the Rings

came out, and how many guided tours of

Harry Potter's

Britain there still are?

Even when they're not blockbusters, visiting movie locations can be fun and draw you to places you might not otherwise find. For instance, I discovered the Paris stamp fair tucked among the trees at the bottom of the Champs Elysées in Paris only after watching the Audrey Hepburn/Cary Grant movie

Charade

.

Now, the movie-tickets site

Fandango

has a

whole list

of movie-inspired road trip ideas based on summer movies. The sand dunes of

Pirates of the Caribbean

(alas, not in the Caribbean at all but rather along California's Central Coast),

Spiderman's

Manhattan, the many possible Springfields of

The Simpsons

,

Ratatouille's

Paris, and of course,

Harry Potter's

Britain are among the many choices. And, Fandango offers not just locations but suggestions about where to stay and eat.