Famous Places
This Croatian city on the Adriatic is known for its massive medieval walls and as a filming location for Game of Thrones.
What is Dubrovnik?
This Spanish rice dish, often made with seafood or saffron, shares its name with the pan it is cooked in.
What is paella?
This Frank Sinatra classic says these two cities “make a grown man cry.”
What are New York, New York?
This movie sends an old man’s house floating all the way to South America.
What is Up?
This country includes the cities of Casablanca and Fez and lies just south of the Strait of Gibraltar.
What is Morocco?
This high-altitude lake borders Peru and Bolivia and is often called the world’s highest navigable lake.
What is Lake Titicaca?
This Peruvian dish features raw fish cured in citrus juice, usually with onion and chili.
What is ceviche?
The Clash famously declared that this city was calling.
What is London?
In this 1969 counterculture classic, two bikers ride across America after a drug deal.
What is Easy Rider?
This country has four main islands, drives on the left, and has the world’s busiest train stations.
What is Japan?
This ancient Malian city became a center of Islamic scholarship and trade, and is often associated with Mansa Musa.
What is Timbuktu?
This Argentine street-food favorite is a sandwich often made with chorizo and chimichurri.
What is choripan?
This Bruce Springsteen song says the streets of this city are “haunted.”
What is Philadelphia?
This Wes Anderson film follows a dysfunctional family on a train trip across India.
What is The Darjeeling Limited?
This country uses the forint, is landlocked, and its capital is split by the Danube.
What is Hungary?
This Spanish city is home to the Alhambra, a palace and fortress complex built by the Nasrid dynasty.
What is Granada?
This New Orleans dish combines rice with sausage, seafood, or chicken in a spiced one-pot meal.
What is jambalaya?
Murray Head spent one night in this Southeast Asian capital.
What is Bangkok?
This 2007 film, directed by Sean Penn, tells the story of Christopher McCandless heading into the Alaskan wilderness.
What is Into the Wild?
This country includes Zanzibar, has Mount Kilimanjaro, and its largest city is Dar es Salaam.
What is Tanzania?
This giant salt flat in Bolivia becomes a mirror-like surface after rain.
What is Salar de Uyuni?
This Salvadoran staple is a thick griddled corn cake usually filled with cheese, beans, or pork.
What is a pupusa?
Ed Sheeran sang about a girl from this city in western Ireland.
What is Galway?
This 1999 film based on a novel by Alex Garland follows backpackers chasing paradise in Thailand.
What is The Beach?
This country contains the region of Silesia, uses the złoty, and borders both Germany and Ukraine.
What is Poland?