Places from stories: games, books, films and comics in real life

You know the story – now visit the real place. Here are monuments from games, books, films and comics set in the Czech lands, with what the story shows and what really stood there.

• Kingdom Come in real life game · 16 places
  Castles, fortresses and churches from Kingdom Come: Deliverance I and II – what really stood there in 1403.
• The Leaning Church and lost Karviná book · 3 places
  Places from Karin Lednická’s trilogy – what survives of old Karvinná and what coal mining swallowed.
• The real Chernarus from DayZ game · 2 places
  The DayZ and Arma 2 map is the Central Bohemian Uplands between Ústí and Děčín – the castle known in the game as Zub and other places the designers grew up with.
• Three Wishes for Cinderella in real life film · 1 place
  Švihov Castle, where Cinderella lived with her stepmother, and the other locations of the 1973 Christmas classic.
• Mácha Country: Čtyřlístek comics and the poem May comic, book · 4 places
  The real places behind the Čtyřlístek comic and the true crime that inspired Mácha’s poem May.
• Vondruška’s medieval mysteries in real life book · 9 places
  Castles and monasteries where Oldřich of Chlum investigates in Vlastimil Vondruška’s medieval mysteries.
• Jirásek’s Psohlavci in real life: the Chod region book · 1 place
  Lomikar’s château at Trhanov, Kozina’s village of Újezd and the Chod Castle – the real places of Jirásek’s novel about the Chod uprising.
• Operation Anthropoid: the real places film · 1 place
  Where Heydrich was assassinated, where the paratroopers made their last stand, the places of Nazi reprisals – and where the film Anthropoid was shot.

Looking for film locations? Read our guide to Czech film locations or see where fairy tales were shot (page in Czech).

Game of Thrones was not filmed here, but Czech history has its own Red Wedding: Czech Game of Thrones.

Pamatky.cz is not affiliated with the authors or publishers of these works; their names are used only to identify the places. Updated 1 November 2026.