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** They even visited a real gunshop and fired actual guns, which must have been near orgasmic for Japanese gun otaku unaccustomed to the real thing.

* ''[[Beyblade]]'' had a tournament in Sydney, Australia. Some characters decide that they want to have private conversation, so they meet ''five minutes later'' on top of Ayers Rock. To those outside Australia, to get from Sydney to Ayers Rock they would have to cross half the country.

* Anime seems to have a lot of exceptions: [[Eden of the East]] has a very accurate landscape and [[Durarara]] is very accurate in its portrayal of Ikebukuro, down to the vending machines.

** [[Eden of the East]] is largely accurate but includes one baffling exception. In the first episode, Akira visits an apartment of his in Northwest D.C. Problem is the address they give is actually the location of the National Gallery of Art's Sculpture Garden.

** In the same episode the opening montage features Saki's photo montage of her visit to [[New York City]], one of those photos features the building One World Trade Center (nickname Freedom Tower). The story takes place in [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|January of 2011]] and the tower is not set for completion until 2013.

 

 

** An interview about the first Bourne movie had someone [[Lampshade Hanging|noting]] that the famous car [[Chase Scene]] took a very unconventional route through Paris.

** '' [[Mission Impossible]] II:'' Ethan Hunt gets a car and chases the girl, leaving the Spanish city of Seville and suddenly reaching some cliffs that might be anywhere but near Seville. Not the movie's only example of [[Did Not Do the Research]] about Spain.

** MIT's administration actually banned the filming of movies on campus after the crew of ''[[Good Will Hunting]]'' displayed an annoying tendency to randomly close important parts of the school. Given that most of the school didn't have a particularly good opinion of the quality of ''21'', it's probably best for the moviemakers that they didn't try it.

* ''[[The Perfect Storm]]'' is based on a true story of fisherman from Gloucester, MA. The bar they frequent, The Crow's Nest, is shown right next to the pier on Harbor Loop. The actual Crow's Nest is about a half mile away, across the street from a wharf for a whale watch business.

* In a rare example of a film actually being shot in the location it's set in, ''[[Almost Famous]]'' was filmed in San Diego, California, and several recognizable local landmarks and businesses are visible throughout the movie -- although, as the film was shot in 2000 and set in 1971, some of the businesses shown had not yet been established, and others operating at the time that had closed since 1971 were not present.

* ''Annapolis'', set at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, was rather obviously not filmed there.

** It was filmed in Toronto. Details [http://torontoist.com/2009/07/reel_toronto_assault_on_precinct_13.php here.]

* Averted in ''[[Ballistic Ecks vs. Sever]]'', which was both filmed and set in Vancouver. It seems odd that the authorities in Canada would allow Americans to run around blowing crap up and treating the city as a shooting gallery, but those who saw ''Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever'' and were unimpressed would likely argue the authorities were pretending that none of this was happening and ignored it.

* ''~Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure~'' was nominally set in San Dimas, California, but the school identified as San Dimas High School was actually Coronado High School in Scottsdale, Arizona.

* ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' caused residents of Riverton, Wyoming, to look out on the dry, arid scorched land (residents of that area beam with pride that the desolate alien planet in ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' was filmed there) and ponder where these lush mountain vistas were that kept popping up.

** Considering Bond's globetrotter nature, there are many more examples from the movies. In ''The Living Daylights'', he seems to teleport randomly around Vienna.

*** In about half of these scenes he's supposed to be in Bratislava at the time, making this especially funny to Austrians; also, there are no high mountains between Bratislava and Vienna.

** Of course, the story was deliberately set in an ambiguous setting.

** The Tim Burton version isn't much better - we get a picture Bavarian [[Cliché Storm]] from the south of Germany. But the town mentioned lies in northern Germany which is very much not like Bavaria.

** Isn't the weather at least justified, as it was supposed to be one of the worst winter storms on record that particular terrorist-laden Christmas?

** In ''Live Free or Die Hard'', the main characters realize they have to run to DC. When they realize this, they are clearly on Light Street in Baltimore, MD. They manage this.

** Harry also is able to take the train directly from Forest Hills to Delores Park which is impossible in real life. You have to take a separate line.

* In ''Elizabeth: The Golden Age'', Elizabeth gives her inspiring Speech to the Troops at Tilbury (an infuriatingly bastardized version of the original, one of the better works of English oratory), and then retires to watch the Battle of Gravelines. Of course, this requires her to be able to see not only across the English Channel but in fact all of Kent. (We also have the little problem that the Speech to the Troops was given ''after'' the Battle of Gravelines, when they were still worried about an invasion force.)

* ''[[Enemy of the State]]'' was set in Washington DC, but filmed in both DC and Baltimore. Multiple scenes have characters walking from a location in one city to a location in the other city, even though they are about an hour's drive apart.

** To say nothing of the "Georgetown" Metro stop that found its way into that and several other movies.

* ''[[Four Brothers]]'', about a quartet of young men who avenge their adoptive mother's murder, was mostly filmed in Hamilton, ON despite being set in Detroit, MI. Made worse by the fact that the two cities are only about three hours' driving time apart.

* The terrible ''Godsend'' is repeatedly said to take place in a "small American town." Not only does it not remotely look like a "small town," the father drives past the rather unique-looking Roy Thompson Hall of Toronto.

* In ''[[The Graduate]]'' the protagonist is headed to Berkeley from LA over [[San Francisco|The Bay Bridge.]] Not only is it unnecessary since both of the major highways (101 & 5) going from LA to the San Francisco area could or would deposit him in the East Bay, but he's going across the bridge into San Francisco.

* Possible aversion: the Chicago-area McAllister house in the ''[[Home Alone]]'' movies is an actual suburban house in Winnetka (a Chicago suburb).

** As it was written by [[John Hughes]] it's half aversion, half this trope. They never mention which Chicago Suburb the McAllisters live in, but you can be certain that it's the same fictional town - Shermer - that Hughes set all his Chicago-based films in.

* The VH1 [[Made for TV Movie]] ''Hysteria: The [[Def Leppard]] Story'' tried to double Sheffield with Canada. So drummer Rick Allen's famous car crash, which happened on the A57 in the Derbyshire Peak District, looks like it happened on the Icefields parkway. The very North-American yellow centre lines on the road are also a bit of a giveaway.

* Not a big, famous town such as L.A. or Vancouver, but when the criminals who are the subject of ''In Cold Blood'' (1967) are seen approaching the Clutter's home, they are crossing the railroad tracks in Holcomb, Kansas. The Clutters did live across the tracks, but the car in the scene is going north. The Clutters lived '''south''' of the tracks.

** And Major League II used Camden Yards and Memorial Stadium in Baltimore and Comiskey Park in Chicago.

* By the same token, much of the scenes in the 1994 remake of ''Angels in the Outfield'' were shot at Oakland's Alameda Coliseum rather than the Angels' home field of Anaheim Stadium.

* When the Griswolds set out from Chicago in ''~National Lampoon's Vacation~'', oil rigs can be seen in the background. [[California Doubling|L.A.]] has plenty of these (and even southern Illinois has some oil deposits), but not Chicago. Much of the rest of the movie was filmed on location.

** Some tall palm trees, and maybe even mountains, can be seen in the background of the early scenes at the car dealership as well. Oops.

** Not to mention the fact that Tesla's Lab was in a very flat, comparably treeless portion of town as compared to the steep sloped, heavy woodlands depicted.

* The indie movie ''A Problem with Fear'' is supposedly set in the Calgary subway. Calgary doesn't have a subway, and if it did the ads in the subway would likely not be in French, as they were in the movie. One wonders why they didn't just set the damn thing in Montreal.

** [http://torontoist.com/2008/10/reel_toronto_resident_evil_apocalypse/ This] takes the entire thing apart.

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** Much later, ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]'' manages to walk the 170 miles from Hadrian's Wall to Nottingham in a day.

* The [[Jackie Chan]] movie ''Rumble in the Bronx'', filmed in Vancouver, makes little attempt to hide that fact. [[The Mountains of Illinois|The snow-capped coast mountains]] are visible in many scenes, as are various Vancouver landmarks.

** Dialog between characters establishes the movie is set in New York City.

* ''[[Sleepless in Seattle]]'' showed everyone, including Seattlites, that Seattle has a subway. Underground bus tunnels, yes. Subway, no.

* At the end of ''[[Splash]]'', [[Tom Hanks]] and his mermaid girlfriend jump off a wharf in New York City, swim a few hundred feet to get away from some scuba-clad pursuers, then stop to smooch against a glorious background of pristine tropical branch corals.

* ''Taking Lives'' is set in Montreal, which you can tell from the establishing shot of... the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chateau_Frontenac Château Frontenac]. Oh, dear.

* The [[Tom Hanks]] vehicle ''Turner and Hooch'' includes a conversation scene that repeatedly switches back and forth between two camera angles -- one angle looking out at Moss Landing Harbor, and the other, looking inland at Pacific Grove, twenty or thirty miles south.

* There is an [[Alfred Hitchcock]] thriller in which the American protagonist comes to Stockholm to receive a Nobel Prize. In one scene he falls off the Symphonic Hall into Lake Malaren, which in fact is about a kilometre away from that building. Also, the seasons are wrong: the Nobel Prizes are awarded in early December when Lake Malaren is about +4 degrees Celsius. If you fall into it, the cold will paralyze you in seconds.

** The movie is called "The Prize" and is well worth watching even if it has some minor mistakes. (Also, it was directed by Mark Robson rather than Hitchcock.)

* The horse/motorcycle chase in ''[[True Lies]]'' for the first time, as Ahnuld and his horse teleported from Georgetown to the distinctive atrium lobby of the Crystal City Hilton, which is across the Potomac in Virginia near the Pentagon, and doesn't have a condo with a pool across from it. The establishing shot outside the building matched the exterior at least, except that they matted in at least twenty extra stories.

* ''[[The Rock]]'': towards the climax of the movie, a nerve gas missile is fired from [[The Alcatraz|the titular island]], programmed to hit the Oakland Coliseum Stadium. Seconds later, when the missile is shown approaching its target, the stadium shown is actually Candlestick Park in San Francisco; it's most obvious when you consider the stadium's red seats, and that Candlestick is neighbored by the water and hills shown in the movie while the now-named McAfee Stadium is surrounded by flat dry land next to a basketball arena and a freeway.

* ''[[Trainspotting]]'' is the Scottish city of Edinburgh, right? Then what can explain the scene where Renton and Diane come out of the nightclub and it is revealed to be the very distinctive exterior of the Volcano... which is ''Glasgow,'' a good fifty miles from Edinburgh?

* People from Bayonne, New Jersey, had a lot of fun in the remake of ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' starring [[Tom Cruise]]. The house in the beginning of the movie is in downtown Bayonne, right underneath the Bayonne Bridge. However, during the alien landing, Tom Cruise walks over to a church that is actually in Newark in under a minute. Beyond the miles of distance required to walk there, Cruise would also have to either swim across Newark Bay or dodge highway traffic across the NJ Turnpike bridge.

** Also at the beginning, when the lightning strikes the ground to activate the tripods, it's seen hitting a spot that seems to be just off Route 440 in Jersey City (admittedly, not too far from Bayonne but definitely a few miles from where Tom Cruise's house and nowhere near quick walking distance)...and yet, Cruise and his neighbors are able to quickly walk out and observe the site, mere blocks away into downtown Bayonne.

** While this may be, the scenes aren't set at Yale University but at the (seems to be) fictional Marshall College, so they are completely incorrect anyway

* While ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'' mostly averts this, with most of the exteriors actually being shot in Chicago, the Palace Hotel, supposedly in Wisconsin, has an Ohio flag flying in front of it.

* In the film ''Driving Lessons'', [[Rupert Grint]] and Julie Walters drive to Edinburgh, arriving on a scenic road down a hillside... which is in the centre of the city and can only be reached once you're already in the city. This is after they've driven ''south'' past a recognisable nuclear power station to get there, and following this, you see them going up alleyways and out of entirely different alleyways on the opposite side of the castle. It's a bit disorientating.

* Baltimore tourists are often told that the ''[[Step Up]]'' movies were filmed at the famous Baltimore School for the Arts, probably because the school in the film is based on that. In fact, they were filmed at a local middle school.

* ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]'' may count if only peripherally, as it takes place in fictional Gotham but was filmed in Chicago. Bruce seems to teleport all over the city, the most outrageous example of which has him leaving his penthouse, with a view that shows it's in the same building as the downtown post office, racing across western Chicago and the loop, in a desperate attempt to get to someone who was, at the time, in a building filmed in the first floor of the very same post office. He could have gone down a flight of stairs.

** Averted in the [[Hong Kong]] scene where Batman glides from one building to the other and the distance seems accurate.

** A minor plot hole emerges in ''The Dark Knight'' as a result. In ''Begins'', Gotham is shown to have very wide rivers and a Manhattan-esque central island. In ''Knight'', Joker makes his threat not to cross the bridges and tunnels (necessitating the ferries), but the shot used is the Chicago river - only a few hundred feet wide and easily swimmable. Indeed, the ferries shown would be long enough to use as a bridge.

* In ''~Planes, Trains and Automobiles~'', [[Steve Martin]] and John Candy are taking a bus from Kansas to St. Louis... cue iconic shot of The Gateway Arch as the bus they are traveling on crosses the Mississippi River. Problem is, the bus is now traveling west from Illinois instead of east from Kansas.

* ''[[Legally Blonde]] 2'' takes place in Washington, D.C. Not a single scene was filmed there. Luckily for the filmmakers, plenty of states have state capitols that look very similar to the US capitol. They chose [[wikipedia:Illinois State Capitol|Illinois']] and [[wikipedia:Utah State Capitol|Utah's,]] then hung around Salt Lake City to film other scenes in the Energy Solutions Arena's offices.

* ''Blow Out'': John Lithgow drags Nancy Allen onto a subway-surface trolley car at the 15th Street underground station. Cut to them climbing to street level at Penn's Landing, 15 blocks away. The subway-surface lines terminate at 13th Street. There is no underground station of any kind at Penn's Landing.

* In ''Next'' the main character enters a building on Fremont Street, Las Vegas and then exits the building onto the main strip.

* The ''[[King Kong]]'' rip-off A.P.E. was set in South Korea. For some reason, despite being filmed in Korea and being co-financed by a Korean film company, they did few establishing shots of Seoul. Instead, two characters simply sit in the backseat of a car and describe Seoul landmarks as they come (the main train/subway station, city hall, the capitol, etc.) In order to see all of these landmarks, they would spend a couple hours driving in different directions.

* In ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension]]'' has a number of these scattered throughout. For instance, palm trees are visible in front of what is alleged to be the New Brunswick, NJ police headquarters. And Grovers Mills, NJ -- in reality a rural area made up mostly of farmland and residential districts -- looks like a giant industrial park.

* ''[[The Descent (Film)|The Descent]]'' is supposedly set in the American south, but the flora in the external shots is glaringly incorrect, especially the overhead shots of the pine trees. It was filmed in Scotland, which has a completely different conifer species predominating.

* In ''[[The X Files Fight the Future]]'', they try and convince the audience that downtown LA is downtown Dallas, and that north Texas is both undeveloped and desert, whereas in reality it's developed and grassland.

* In ''[[Scary Movie 4]]'' the characters come across video footage of Detroit before and after the alien attack (setting up a joke that nothing really had changed). Unfortunately the city in the footage was actually San Diego (with CGI blast damage added). San Diego and Detroit look nothing at all alike.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* ''[[Left Behind]]'' describes Turkey as being in ''Western Europe''. [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2008/05/09/lb-speakerphone/ Slacktivist's page] includes a handy map to demonstrate that is not, in fact, the case.

* Kafka's unfinished book "Amerika" features some serious geographical anomalies -- like the city of Boston being located "just across the Hudson River" from New York City, or having a character try to travel from New York to San Francisco by heading EAST. Scholars are divided as to whether this was intentional surrealism or Kafka just not doing his homework.

** The story acts like Forks is every cliche about England having way to much rain and clouds in just one town all the time. Its more likely slightly overcast some of the time.

*** Then there's the infamous honeymoon on the "west coast of Brazil"...

* ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'', set in Lynbrook, NY has an episode where Deborah wants to sell Girl Scout cookies in front of the busiest place in Lynbrook, a pizzeria, but is banned from doing so. However, the closest Pizzeria to Fowler Ave (which looks nothing like its TV counterpart) has a Coldstone and a movie theater within 500 feet of it, both of which are far busier than the pizzeria.

* In ''~It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia~'', the exterior of Paddy's is often shown briefly from an angle where you can see a street sign in the background that looks just like one from Philly. Look closer. The sign says "Second." Numbered streets in Philly go "2nd," "3rd" and so on; the word is not written out. (The exterior was shot in LA)

** The most blatant ~They Just Didn't Care~ moment came in Season 4, where the Terrorminions hijack a nuclear missile transport and manage to lose the satellite tracking in the mountains... ''[[The Mountains of Illinois|of IOWA]]''.

*** Not quite so They Just Didn't Care. While the northeast corner of Iowa is not exactly "mountainous", it's not normally what you'd think when you think of Iowa. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driftless_Area. Ironically, this same geological area extends partly into [[The Mountains of Illinois|Illinois]].

* Lampshaded in ''[[Due South]]'', which is set in Chicago but filmed in Toronto. When they did an episode set in Toronto... they filmed it in Chicago. That's fair, isn't it?

* In an episode of ''[[The Facts of Life]]'', set in Peekskill, New York, Mrs. Garrett brings in the newspaper -- the ''Los Angeles Times'', which is not usually found on the porch in New York.

*** In the case of [[The Movie]] upon which ''[[Highlander the Series]]'' was based, London doubled for New York.

* ''[[Frasier]]'' - No building in Seattle has the view seen from Frasier's window. The shot was taken from the top of a cliff and was chosen so the Space Needle could be prominently seen from the window.

** [http://www.lexbrodies.com/ Lex Brodie] appears to have relocated their Honolulu store from Queen St. to Ala Wai Blvd.

** The McGarrett house is in the middle of Ala Moana Beach Park.

* An episode of ''[[Mantracker]]'' "Jim and Nichola" is filmed in Carcross, Yukon, Canada; but while the highly detailed zero-in GPS map is clean and linear, the actual scenery and locale are decidedly not so. The episode jumps back and forth between Montana Mountain and the south-east side of Carcross, to the dunes and desert and beach on the other side with absolutely no linear travel whatsoever, and there is no sign of the town itself, though they would've been absolutely forced to cross one of the bridges there or likely drown in the powerful currents of either Windy Arm or Bennett Lake. Additionally, the GPS map itself is nearly 100% inaccurate, and none of the focus spots matches any of the locations actually filmed.

* ''Midnight Man'' - not only is Westminster tube station not served by the Northern line, the Jubilee line platforms there have glass barriers for safety. It's clearly the closed Charing Cross Jubilee platforms being used.

** Lampshaded repeatedly both on SG-1 and [[Stargate Atlantis|Atlantis]] when characters will point out that all of the planets they visit seem to look an awful lot like Canada. Both shows film in and around Vancouver.

*** [[Word of God]] is that they tried to put a Canadian reference into each episode, because so much of it was filmed in Canada.

** Just so that you'd understand - an amusement park (and especially its wooden roller coaster) built that close to an ocean or body of water like that would have a very hard time staying in existence against Mother Nature and plain old Laws of Physics - sandy beaches aren't exactly the most stable type of land to build ''roller coasters'' on, and said roller coaster and quite likely large portions of the park itself would be in danger of being washed away, regardless of whether the area is hurricane-prone or not. That said, there ''are'' amusement parks that ''are'' built close to bodies of water such as [http://www.lakesideamusementpark.com/ Lakeside Amusement Park] in Denver, Colorado or the famous Coney Island Amusement Park in New York, New York; the former is built near a mundane man-made lake (as its name implies) and both are built on solid, paved ground.

*** And Coney Island features a [[wikipedia:The Cyclone|wooden roller coaster]] that's been around since 1927.

*** Not to mention the famous Pleasure Beaches at Blackpool and Southport in the UK. They aren't actually on the beach, but they're very close to it.

*** The [[wikipedia:Giant Dipper|Giant Dipper]] wooden roller coaster has been on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in California since 1924, and an identically named wooden coaster has been on Mission Beach in San Diego, California since 1925.

** Well, the two states ''do'' border each other, so it's more a question of where ''in'' Colorado and Kansas they're traveling between.

** There was a great one in Season Five where the boys manage to go from Elk Creek, Nebraska to Alliance, Nebraska and back in the space of an afternoon. It's about an eight-hour drive one-way (six if you're heavy on the gas and light on the rest-stops.)

* The opening to ''[[Newhart]]'' is not filmed in Vermont, but near Squam Lake, New Hampshire.

** Except for the exterior of the inn, which is actually in E. Middlebury, Vt, on the other side of the state from N.H.

* A Season 1 episode of ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' had Peter and Myke travel to Chicago to investigate a series of unusual bank robberies. One outdoor scene showed streetcar tracks and a blue streetsign for York Av., Chicago, like most US cities, abandoned streetcars many years ago, and the streetsigns there are green, not blue. The shot is a dead giveaway for Toronto, where the series [[California Doubling|is filmed]].

** Several Season 2 establishing shots for Secret Service Headquarters are actually of the Colorado Supreme Court building in Denver, Colorado.

* Note to the makers of ''[[Rubicon]]'': The Acela train from New York to Washington, D.C. leaves from Penn Station, not Grand Central.

* ''[[Life Unexpected]]'': Good news: The producers got pretty much every detail about Portland (the show's setting) correct. [http://www.platypuscomix.net/fpo/history/luxsux.html Bad news]: That's pretty much where all the effort went.

* The ''[[Twilight 2000]]'' adventure module "The Black Madonna" is supposedly set in Czestochowa in Poland.

** Though, to be fair, apparently some writers did ''go'' to Krakow. In the middle of Cold War. To write a gamebook. Twenty years of post-Communist development and a conspicuous lack of [[World War III]] later, [[Shown Their Work|the geography and some of the descriptions are still recognisable.]]

 

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Resistance|Resistance 2]]'' has a secret military bunker on [[San Francisco|Angel Island]] when you exit the bunker The Bay Bridge has suspiciously been painted red.

** Then again, the series is set in an [[Alternate Universe]], with the point of divergence from ours being around the 1900s (the bridge's construction began in 1933)

* ''[[Parasite Eve]]'' takes place in all sorts of New York landmarks, such as Central Park and the Museum of National History. While the general feel of the places are surprisingly accurate, they play merry hell with the layout, obviously in an attempt to RPG-ize it.

** Chinatown doesn't look anything at all like Manhattan's Chinatown, or any other in NYC. Then there's the three East River crossings all looking like copypasted Brooklyn Bridges. For added hilarity, there's subway trains running across them, when in reality the Brooklyn Bridge is the only one of the three which ''doesn't'' have subway tracks, due to the bridge's age.

* There is an arcade game showing a scene of a helicopter flying through massive skyscrapers and listing the location as "Green Bay, Wisconsin". The tallest building in Green Bay is the 10-story St. Vincent's Hospital, as seen in this picture of the [http://www.olej.com/community.asp skyline].

* Beautifully averted in ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'', which managed to capture the essence of New York City and most of its neighborhoods perfectly, to the point that some New Yorkers, when traveling around the city, will recognize areas from rampaging through them in ''GTAIV''.

* ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'''s map based on New York. The [[Mons]]...not so much. These include bison and a weird thing that is supposed to be based on the Nazca lines but looks like a mobile.

** Similarly, the original games had a map based on Tokyo and the [[Mons]] included the platypus-like Psyduck and the Rafflesia-like Vileplume, among other not-Japanese natives.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* [[Lampshade|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Assy McGee]]''. The series supposedly takes place in Exeter, New Hampshire, a small town, but it is depicted as a crime-ridden metropolis.

* Averted in ''[[The Simpsons]]'', which takes great care to get geography down accurately when they visit a major city and to include proper landmarks; for instance, having been released from prison in Tokyo, they are seen to walk away from the Tokyo Police Headquarters (a very distinctive building).

** [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?|Of course, the layout of Springfield itself changes so much the place can't ''possibly'' have a definite map at this point.]]