Pop culture · October 11, 2026

Puzzle #3 answers

The five places from Where Was It? Pop culture #3, and the story behind each one.

1. 01

   Film

   The Hogwarts Express steams across this curved, 21-arch railway viaduct.

   Glenfinnan Viaduct, Scottish Highlands, UK

   

   The viaduct on the West Highland Line appears in four Harry Potter films. The Jacobite steam train still crosses it in summer.

   56.876, -5.432

2. 02

   TV

   The exterior shot of the six friends' apartment building is on this street corner.

   90 Bedford Street, Greenwich Village, New York, USA

   

   Friends was shot in Burbank, but the establishing shots show the building at Bedford and Grove Street in Greenwich Village.

   40.732, -74.005

4. 03

   Music

   The first YouTube video to pass one billion views was named after this upscale district.

   Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea

   

   PSY's Gangnam Style (2012) satirised the lifestyle of Seoul's wealthy Gangnam district, south of the Han River.

   37.517, 127.047

5. 04

   Film

   The 2009 Best Picture winner opens with a chase through this huge informal settlement.

   Dharavi, Mumbai, India

   

   Slumdog Millionaire was filmed partly in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest informal settlements, home to around a million people.

   19.040, 72.854

6. 05

   Books

   Marketed to the world as 'Dracula's Castle', this fortress sits on a mountain pass in Transylvania.

   Bran Castle, Romania

   

   Bram Stoker never visited Romania, but Bran Castle loosely matches his description of a castle on a crag above a pass and has become Dracula's de facto home.

   45.515, 25.367