Pop-culture tourism

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Pop-culture tourism is the act of traveling to locations featured in literature, film, music, or any other form of popular entertainment.
Popular destinations have included:

the Iowa cornfields featured in Field of Dreams
New Zealand after The Lord of the Rings was filmed there
The Louvre in which the book and movie The Da Vinci Code takes place
Tom's Restaurant which is known to many as Monk's from Seinfeld
Prince Edward Island, in which the Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables takes place, is a popular attraction for tourists, notably from Japan.

Pop-culture tourism is in some respects akin to pilgrimage, with its modern equivalents of places of pilgrimage, such as Elvis Presley's Graceland and the grave of Jim Morrison in Père Lachaise Cemetery.