16 Stirring James Bond Locations

The first Bond film, Dr No (1962), sees the 00 agent foil a plot to disrupt a US rocket launch. On the beach not far from these falls, Ursula Andress made her unforgettable entrance as Honey Ryder.

Goldfinger (1964) is considered by many to be the finest film of the franchise,a nd its locations don't disappoint. Tracing Auric Goldfinger to his secretive metalworks leads Bond on a tour of the stunning Furka Pass in the Swiss Alps.

Preparing to attack the hidden volcano lair of SPECTRE in You Only Live Twice (1967), Bond visits Tiger Tanaka's ninja training school at Himeji Castle, where traditional throwing stars go hand-in-hand with rocket pistols.

The above-board diplomacy of the United Nations is shattered in Live and Let Die (1973) when a British agent is killed by a sonic weapon transmitted through his headphones. We can't imagine anything as dramatic occurring in the real-life General Assembly Hall.

Perhaps one of London's 'worst kept secrets', the UK's Secret Intelligence Services (formerly MI6) has headquartered in this building on the River Thames since 1994, and it's featured in many Bond films since then.

The heart-stopping finale of GoldenEye (1995) sees 007 battle his traitorous former comrade Alex Trevelyan high above the satellite dish of Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. As Bond offers a final farewell to Trevelyan, he destroys the facility.

The island castle of Eilean Dolan features in a memorable moment of The World is Not Enough (1999) as the Scottish headquarters of MI6. Here, agents gather for the wake of British oil tycoon Sir Robert King.

The glacial lake of Jökulsárlón in Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland, first featured in the prelude to A View to a Kill (1985) and was the site of the arctic car chase in Die Another Day (2002).

Peru's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert stands in for the Bolivian eco hotel in the 2008 film Quantum of Solace. Director Marc Forster chose the harsh, arid location to enhance the sense of Bond's revenge.