1. Winterfell
   Castle Black
2. Karhold
   Bear Island

Ancestral home of House Stark, Winterfell was the stronghold of the North. Because so much of the action takes place at Winterfell over every season of the show, filming locations were not stable. Winterfell was made up of a castle in Scotland, a couple of castles in Ireland, and soundstages in Belfast.

1. The Neck
   The Vale
2. The Wall
   The Reach

The Wall was said to be 300 miles long, 700 feet tall, and 8000 years old. All it took was one dragon and about 5 minutes of work to render the entire thing useless so that was a bit of a letdown, all things being equal.

1. The Red Keep
   Castle Black
2. The Sept of Baelor
   Pyke

Castle Black wasn't technically a real place like many other castles in the show. It was actually built by the production team in an old quarry north of Belfast in Ireland. The inside shots were all soundstage stuff, also in Belfast.

1. The Twins
   The Eyrie
2. Storm's End
   Casterly Rock

Casterly Rock was filmed at a place called Trujillo Castle in part of Spain called Extremadura. That part of the world is known for a lot of really delicious foods like citrus, cheese and cured ham. No word on whether or not the Lannisters enjoyed any of that.

1. Three Sisters
   Old Town
2. Flea Bottom
   Mole's Town

For the poorest part of town, a lot goes on in Flea Bottom. This is where Davos Seaworth says he's from and it's also where Gendry gets hidden away. Many of the scenes that are filmed here were shot in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

1. Casterly Rock
   Dragonstone
2. King's Landing
   Highgarden

A lot of action takes place in King's Landing and a lot of locations were used to film it. In season one, it was partially filmed in Malta, but much of what we might recognize as King's Landing was the historic city of Dubrovnik in Croatia.

1. Kingswood
   Wolf's Wood
2. Haunted Forest
   Mistwood

Kingswood is the forest near King's Landing in which King Robert gets gored by a boar. It's supposed to cover the Kingsroad all the way from King's Landing to Storm's End and meet up with the Roseroad somewhere as well.

1. Fist of the First Men
   Craster's Keep
2. Cave of the Three-Eyed Raven
   Blackwater Bay

Craster's Keep is a weird place beyond the Wall where the Wildling Craster lives with his daughter/wives. He sacrifices all of his male children to the White Walkers and the Night King turns them into his kind in a creepy, deep forest ritual.

1. Misty Isle
   Bear Island
2. Red Deer Island
   Quiet Island

Thanks to so many adults in the Mormont line dying off, for a good portion of the series Lyanna Mormont, a 10-year-old girl, is the head of House Mormont on Bear island. On the upside, she's the toughest 10-year-old girl ever.

1. Storm's End
   Harrenhal
2. Dragonstone
   Sunspear

Obviously the dragon-riding Targaryens call Dragonstone home. That just makes sense. Of course, once everyone thought the Targaryens were gone it was House Baratheon that took Dragonstone over, with Stannis living there for a time.

1. The Red Keep
   The Sept of Baelor
2. The Citadel
   The Nightfort

The Citadel is located in Oldtown and it's where you go to become a Maester. This is where Samwell Tarly spends some time training before heading back to the Wall. It's also where he cures Jorah Mormont of a previously incurable disease.

1. White Harbour
   Horn Hill
2. Hardhome
   Tarth

In an effort to save Brienne of Tarth, Lannister tells some of Bolton's men that she was from the Sapphire Islands and she was worth a lot in ransom if they didn't hurt her. After they're free, Brienne points out that there are no sapphires on Tarth, it's named for the color of the water.

1. Blackwater Bay
   Narrow Sea
2. Deep Lake
   Deepwood Motte

Despite no one having much faith in him succeeding on the field of battle, Tyrion Lannister threw down at the Battle of Blackwater Bay and used the nefarious weapon known as wildfire to set the bay on fire and take out much of Stannis's forces.

1. Eastern Road
   Blackwater Road
2. The Gold Road
   The Kingsroad

A good portion of the traveling in Westeros takes place on the Kingsroad because it'll take you all the way from Castle Black to King's Landing and then down south to Storm's End. It doesn't actually go to Winterfell, but it gets close.

1. Dragonstone
   Storm's End
2. Craster's Keep
   Moat Cailin

Storm's End is where you'll end up if you follow the Kingsroad all the way to the end of the line. At the end of the show, Gendry is the Lord of Storm's End and the heir of all things Baratheon. Though we hear about it on the show no one ever actually goes there.

1. The Citadel
   Sept of Baelor
2. Nightfort
   Dreadfort

The Sept of Baelor had been a significant landmark in King's Landing as the main place of worship for citizens. That mostly ended when Cersei Lannister had the tunnels underneath it loaded with wildfire so she could explode it and everyone in it. Ouch.

1. Queenscrown
   Clegane's Keep
2. The Red Keep
   Crakehall

The Red Keep is home to the King and Queen of the Seven Kingdoms (or six, depending on your timeline) in King's Landing. It got pretty messed up by Drogon when Dany attacked the city, but it did manage to remain standing, so presumably, King Bran lives there.

1. Pebbleton
   Sunspear
2. Mole's Town
   Hardhome

Hardhome is the place where one of the most epic battles in all of "Game of Thrones" takes place. Jon Snow and the Wildings take on the Night King and the result is way too many zombies. Word is it took them 5 whole weeks to film that scene and the budget was in the millions.

1. Sunspear
   Highgarden
2. Tarth
   Horn Hill

Sunspear was the capital of Dorne and the home of House Martell. In real life, it was filmed at a place called Royal Alcázar of Seville in Spain. The place has some breathtaking orchards and gardens that are well worth a visit if you ever get a chance.

1. Horn Hill
   The Eyrie
2. Harrenhall
   The Dreadfort

The Dreadfort doesn't get a lot of screen time but the parts we see were filmed at a place called Myra Castle in Ireland. By the time the show is over, the Dreadfort is sort of forgotten and with both Boltons dead we're not sure who is left to run the place if anyone.

1. Haunted Forest
   Cave of the Three-Eyed Raven
2. Craster's Back
   Wolf's Den

Located somewhere beyond the Wall, the cave of the three-eyed raven is where Bran learns more about his creepy sight powers and also where we finally learn what the deal is with Hodor. Nothing particularly good happens here.

1. The Vale
   The Neck
2. The Twins
   Riverrun

Riverrun is where House Tully calls home, which is where Catelyn Stark originally came from. Thanks to some shady doings with the Freys the Tullys end up losing control of the place, however. For a short time, Jaime Lannister was in control of Riverrun.

1. Harrenhall
   The Twins
2. Crossroads Inn
   Riverrun

Home of the nefarious Frey family, the Twins are a pair of castles on either side of the River Trident. By the time the series is over, it's rather unclear who runs the Twins since Arya seems to have killed off all the male members of the House.

1. Nightsong
   Blacktyde
2. Bear Island
   Pyke

Home of the Greyjoys, Pyke is both their castle and the island on which it sits. If you liked the grey, watery countryside you can visit it in real life over in Ireland at Ballintoy Harbour. Most of Pyke was a soundstage on the inside and the castle was a digital creation so it wouldn't look too similar if you went there today.

1. Cobbler's Square
   Fleabottom
2. Mole's Town
   The Hook

Few towns are located so far north but Mole's Town is one of them. It's mostly famous for its brothel which brothers of the Night's Watch are forbidden to visit and yet all of them still do it. Gilly hid out here for a while, but Wildlings sacked it later.

1. Castle Black
   Eastwatch-by-the-Sea
2. Moat Cailin
   Pyke

Eastwatch-by-the-Sea is one of the castles overseen by the Night's Watch. It's the closest to the sea, and it was the spot that the White Walkers chose to break through the wall. A little undead dragon fire completely destroyed the place.

1. The Eyrie
   Vale Arryn
2. Tarth
   The Citadel

The Eyrie was located in the Vale and is home to House Arryn and its super weird family. Though much of the castle itself was CG, the location where they put the stronghold was actually filmed in a place called Meteora, Greece.

1. Pyke
   White Harbor
2. Iron Island
   The Twins

White Harbor is a little ways south of Winterfell and the primary trade port in the North. Anytime anyone has to take a boat to or from the North in "Game of Thrones" they're going through White Harbor. A lot of people mention it, and it's the largest city in the North, but not a ton of show action occurs there.

1. Hardhome
   Craster's Keep
2. Frost Fangs
   Fist of the First Men

If you go to Iceland you can find a glacier with the name Snæfellsjökull. That was used as a filming location for the Fist of the First Men, and also the Frostfangs in season 2 of "Game of Thrones." The weather in these locations was brutal and temperatures got down to around 12 degrees Fahrenheit.

1. Whitepass
   The Ice Peaks
2. Skirling Pass
   Frostfangs

The Frostfangs are the mountains that separate the North from the Land of Always Winter. Somewhere beyond these mountains is where the White Walkers come from but we never really get to learn much about it because no one ever goes there.

1. Casterly Rock
   Riverrun
2. Highgarden
   Dragonstone

House Tyrell called Highgarden home. For the exterior shots, filming was done at a Spanish castle called Castillo de Almodóvar del Rio. This castle was also used for some parts of Casterly Rock as well. The castle itself is Moorish and it's open to the public if you ever want to visit.

1. Summerhall
   Harrenhal
2. Horn Hill
   Wendwater

House Tarly's seat is at Horn Hill and was the original home of Samwell Tarly until his father, who was a bit of a jerk, sent him to join the Night's Watch so he wouldn't be an embarrassment to the family anymore. It worked out for Sam but not so much for the rest of the family.

1. Seven Swords
   Drunken Dornishman
2. Crossroads Inn
   Hogs Head

The Kingsroad meets the River Road at the biggest junction for travelers in Westeros and the Crossroads Inn is there. This is where Robert Baratheon stops on his way back from Winterfell, and where Hot Pie parts company with Arya but then later helps out Brienne of Tarth.

1. Mormont Keep
   Saltspear
2. Deepwood Motte
   Moat Cailin

Moat Cailin is on Stark lands and was built by the First Men. It's pretty ramshackle these days and no one actually uses it, but it does pop up a few times over the course of the series as people stop by on their way to somewhere else.

1. Hornwood
   King's Wood
2. Godswood
   Wolfswood

Osha turns up in the Wolfswood in season one. The other Wildlings she's with aren't as lucky as her as they are killed when Osha is taken prisoner by the Starks, and then later ends up caring for the two youngest boys, at least for a little while.