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Today, Let’s move on to famous spots you might have seen in reknown films.
For those who haven't seen these movies, you should check them out to make this post more interesting and exciting.

Leon
Leon, stylish thriller, is set in New York.
Most of the scenes are in Spanish Harlem, Chinatown and Wall Street.
The hotel of precocious Mathilda, where she loses her family in a savage attack.
The Chelsea has far too much history to list here: Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001 while staying here, Andy Warhol filmed The Chelsea Girls, Bob Dylan wrote Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands. The hotel is now probably best remembered in pop culture as the hotel in which Nancy Spungen died and Sid Vicious was arrested – see Alex Cox’s Sid and Nancy, which filmed within the hotel. It’s not a five star haven of luxury; in fact it can be a little ramshackle, but that’s the charm of the chelsea – there really is nowhere quite like it.
Mathilda’s Hotel
Hotel Chelsea, 222 West 23rd St. New York, US

Notting Hill

The heart of the film is Notting Hill’s Portobello Road street market, in the top ten of London’s tourist attractions – a fact you’ll appreciate if you visit durring the weekend. But that really is the time to see it. On weekdays, locals buy fruit and veggies. Second-hand goods are included on Friday, but on Saturdays the road is packed for the famous antiques market.

But there is no ‘Travel Book Company’ on Portobello Road, the down-at-heel shop owned by William Thacker. The store was Nicholls Antique Arcade, now furniture store Gong, 142 Portobello Road. The real Travel Bookshop, on which William’s establishment was based, can be seen around the corner. It’s the travel bookshop 13-15 Blenheim Crescent, just off Portobello.

A few yards away across Portbello Road, at 280 Westbourne Park Road is William Thacker’s flat (Hugh Grants house in the film). However, the owners didn’t like the attention gathered from having their home featured in a major motion picture and so now it looks nothing like it does in the film. It’s now been painted all white.
William Thacker’s flat, the blue door –280 Westbourne Park Road, Notthing Hill, London W11, England, UK

Harry Potter
Kings Cross, Pancras & Euston Road, London, England, UK

Harry needs to get to Hogwarts. How? He needs to take the Hogwarts Express train of course! But you’ll have to catch it at paltform 9 3/4's, which is actually the arched wall between platforms 4 and 5. Don’t go running into that wall. It doesn’t work!

A Gothicised 13th century abbey in Lacock, three miles south of

Chippenhan in Wiltshire, which supplied many of the classrooms and the site of Madame Hooch’s flying lesson. This place is open daily(except Tuesday) from the beginning of April to the end of October.
Hogwarts’ classrooms: Lacock Abbey, Lacock, Wiltshire


Serendipity
Serendipity restaurant made history by being used as a location shot for the movie of the same name, Serendipity. I know the place was a hot spot before the movie came out, but now everyone knows about it so it can sometimes be difficult to even get in there. The wait is worth it though, so I certainly recommend going.
If you are planning on going on a Friday or Saturday night, be prepared for a wait of, at the very least, an hour or more. Once you get in, you will be happy you waited as you check out the funky, eclectic décor. Wild decorations give the whole place a flea market feel.
There are two floors for seating, but upstairs is where the scenes from the movie were filmed. My favorite seat is upstairs, a table right by the front window. That way you can look out on the street, and the people below that are waiting to get in.
This place isn’t just all celebrity. The food is great. The main attraction and signature menu in Serendipity is the “Frozen Hot Chocolate.” Yes, it is both frozen and hot. This dessert is what Serendipity is known for and some people come here just to order dessert and nothing else.

Sleepless in Seattle
This is the one we asked you to wait for!
Sleepless in Seattle served up a romantic idea of what life would be like living in a houseboat: Walking over water on a deck to access your home and once inside, the sensation of being afloat, as waves gently lap your door step.
Originally houseboats were built for the poor in Seattle but are now more for the wealthy with their rapidly increasing prices. Only 487 houseboats exist and because of shoreline management laws, no more can be built. The demand definitely exceeds the supply.

This is not a house for those looking to have tons of privacy since it is on several tours. If you do buy the Sleepless in Seattle houseboat, expect to have many visitors stopping by to check it out and wave as you sit on your porch. You shouldn’t actually be sleepless in this house as boaters know the best place to sleep is on the water and the visitors won’t be coming by at night.