Pop culture · October 24, 2026

Puzzle #16 answers

The five places from Where Was It? Pop culture #16, and the story behind each one.

01
TV
Nevermore Academy, Wednesday Addams's school in the Netflix series Wednesday, was filmed at this castle in the Romanian Carpathians.
Cantacuzino Castle, Bușteni, Romania
Costea Stefan · CC BY-SA 3.0 ro
Cantacuzino Castle stands in Bușteni, a mountain resort in Romania's Prahova Valley. Wednesday, the series by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar and Tim Burton, used it for the exteriors of Nevermore Academy.
45.414, 25.543
02
Film
Christopher Nolan filmed The Odyssey (2026) at this fortified earthen village on the old caravan route from the Sahara to Marrakesh.
Aït Benhaddou, Ouarzazate, Morocco
Wonker from London, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0
Aït Benhaddou is a historic ksar, or fortified village, in southern Morocco and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Gladiator and Game of Thrones filmed there long before Nolan's The Odyssey.
31.050, -7.133
03
Books
In Joyce's Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus expounds his theory of Hamlet to Dublin's literati in this institution's reading room.
National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Nordisk familjebok · Public domain
The National Library of Ireland occupies a building on Kildare Street, Dublin, designed by Thomas Newenham Deane. The 'Scylla and Charybdis' episode of James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) is set there.
53.341, -6.254
04
Film
Tom Cruise climbs the glass outside of the world's tallest building in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011).
Burj Khalifa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Tim.Reckmann · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Burj Khalifa in Dubai, designed by SOM, is the world's tallest structure. In Brad Bird's Ghost Protocol, Ethan Hunt scales its facade, a climb Cruise performed himself.
25.197, 55.274
05
TV
Netflix's The Crown regularly follows Queen Elizabeth II to this royal residence about 40 km west of London.
Windsor Castle, Berkshire, UK
Diliff · CC BY 2.5
Windsor Castle in Berkshire has been associated with the English and then British royal family for nearly a millennium. Peter Morgan's The Crown, about Elizabeth II's reign, is partly set there.
51.484, -0.604

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Puzzle #16 answers

The five places from Where Was It? Pop culture #16, and the story behind each one.

Nevermore Academy, Wednesday Addams's school in the Netflix series Wednesday, was filmed at this castle in the Romanian Carpathians.

Cantacuzino Castle, Bușteni, Romania

Cantacuzino Castle stands in Bușteni, a mountain resort in Romania's Prahova Valley. Wednesday, the series by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar and Tim Burton, used it for the exteriors of Nevermore Academy.

45.414, 25.543

Film

Christopher Nolan filmed The Odyssey (2026) at this fortified earthen village on the old caravan route from the Sahara to Marrakesh.

Aït Benhaddou, Ouarzazate, Morocco

Aït Benhaddou is a historic ksar, or fortified village, in southern Morocco and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Gladiator and Game of Thrones filmed there long before Nolan's The Odyssey.

31.050, -7.133

Books

In Joyce's Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus expounds his theory of Hamlet to Dublin's literati in this institution's reading room.

National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

The National Library of Ireland occupies a building on Kildare Street, Dublin, designed by Thomas Newenham Deane. The 'Scylla and Charybdis' episode of James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) is set there.

53.341, -6.254

Film

Tom Cruise climbs the glass outside of the world's tallest building in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011).

Burj Khalifa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The Burj Khalifa in Dubai, designed by SOM, is the world's tallest structure. In Brad Bird's Ghost Protocol, Ethan Hunt scales its facade, a climb Cruise performed himself.

25.197, 55.274

Netflix's The Crown regularly follows Queen Elizabeth II to this royal residence about 40 km west of London.

Windsor Castle, Berkshire, UK

Windsor Castle in Berkshire has been associated with the English and then British royal family for nearly a millennium. Peter Morgan's The Crown, about Elizabeth II's reign, is partly set there.

51.484, -0.604

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