Ilove visiting film shoot locations. In 2009, I planned an entire vacation around the Field of Dreams house and baseball field. In 2011, after a trip to Mount Rushmore (which is another location, as Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest was partially filmed there), I returned through Iowa and stopped in Winterset, where The Bridges of Madison County was filmed. And yes, I walked across one of the bridges.

Reader's Digest has published a list of Christmas movie locations you can visit, and a few of them aren't that far away, relatively speaking.

Christmas Story House

In 2021, we visited a good friend of ours in Cleveland, Ohio, where part of the iconic holiday classic A Christmas Story was filmed. There's an enormous and comprehensive gift shop, a museum, and, of

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