20 Famous Movie Scene Locations That You Can Actually Visit

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Mad Max – Namibia

This heart-pounding road-racing insane thriller of a movie featured a super hardcore Charlize Theron leading a rebellion against an insane tyrant keeping a group of female prisoners hostage. The movie is set in a post-apolocalyptic world where fierce battles are held over basic necessities, and nobody can be trusted.

While this movie could easily have been filmed in one of the many deserts in the USA, the producer instead chose to shoot in the Namib Desert. With long stretches of flat roads, red-hued sand dunes, and an arid landscape, it was the perfect location to film a dystopian wasteland. 

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But the Namib Desert is no wasteland – it is in fact the oldest desert in the world, estimated to be some 50 to 80 million years old, and it supports a variety of life.

And Namibia is a lot more than just desert; visitors who trek to this coastal African country will be amazed to see a land where the ocean literally meets the desert. It has been the setting for a number of other movies, but still, Namibia remains off the beaten path for tourists, which means you can find yourself wandering the striking red sand dunes and have the scenery all to yourself.