Tag: movies
Visit Harry Potter behind-the-scenes on Google Street View
Now you can take the Warner Bros. Studio Tour in London on Google Street View.
Among the fun things you can do is step onto the famous cobbles of Diagon Alley. This is where you’ll find the shop fronts of Ollivanders wand shop, Flourish and Blotts, the Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, Gringotts Wizarding Bank and Eeylops Owl Emporium.
Google Street View visits deserted “Battleship island” from Bond movie Skyfall
Hashima Island (aka Battleship Island) in Japan was featured in the Bond movie Skyfall as the hideout Dead Island. Now Google Street View came to the deserted and creepy island. The place concist of destroyed post-war buildings – a ghost town where nobody has lived since 1974.
Mitsubishi Corporation own the island and originally used it for coal mining.
Mighty Micks Gym
From the Rocky series, appeared in Rocky I, II, III, V and maybe Rocky Balboa. Also across the street in a vacant building is where the pet shop from the series was located.
House from A Christmas Story (see leglamp in window)
Transforming Building
Look southeast from this intersection at the tall building covered in a transformers ad. Head south and it becomes under construction. If you head east from the original location it transforms into done.
Update: Images appear to have been updated by google now, but you can see the original images below.
