Dirty Dancing in and Ice Storm

"A fun travel book. I'm going to check out the sites where these great movies were made."

- Bryon Rupert McCafferty, pop culture guru of Online Critics Corner

Ever wonder where Dirty Dancing was filmed? Want to tour the ghost town where The Hunger Games took place? Like to stop off in the Goodwives Shopping Center where The Stepford Wives shopped? How about dancing on the same streetcorner as Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in La La Land? Or take a ride on the real African Queen? Sleep over in the same house as Ralphie in A Christmas Story? Walk the Hall of Mirrors like Owen Wilson in Midnight in Paris? Enjoy the same scenic drive as Jack Nicholson in The Shining? See where Steve McQueen pulled off the big heist in The Thomas Crown Affair? Rent the same room where Elizabeth Taylor relaxed while filming A Place in the Sun? Grab some black bean soup where David Letterman likes to eat in the Connecticut town where The Ice Storm took place. Visit Professor X's School for Gifted Youths that you saw in those X-Men movies? Go swimming in the same quarry where the Cutters did in Breaking Away? Get a photo op in front of the Hook & Ladder Company 8 fire station that served as the headquarters in Ghostbusters? Glimpse the pool that was teaming with sharks in that James Bond movie? Visit a Hobbit hole in New Zealand? And more! Just follow the directions in this book that explores locations where some of your favorite movies where filmed.

Shirrel Rhoades is a writer, critic, filmmaker, former college professor, art collector, publishing consultant - and inveterate traveler. He has published Directions, an award-winning travel magazine, served as editor-in-chief of The Bahamas Handbook and Businessman's Annual, Sun 'n Sixpence, What-to-Do Magazine, The Cayman Island Handbook, Cayman Islands Holiday Guide, and other travel guides. His travel articles have been published in The Saturday Evening Post, Looking Back, and many other publications.