13. Tikal National Park, Guatemala

In A New Hope, the Star Wars series was using unusual filming locations. The Millennium Falcon is seen flying into the Rebel Base on Yavin 4 just before the massive assault on the Death Star. If you go to Tikal’s Mayan ruins and climb up onto Temple IV, you can see that same landscape of stone temples protruding through jungle.Death valley national park in California, USADan Sedran / shutterstock.com