Texas Film & TV Trail (DFW)

Hollywood has been shooting in North Texas for half a century, and the real locations are still standing — a ranch that became the most famous mansion on television, a small-town bank where Bonnie and Clyde robbed for the cameras, a brutalist city hall that played a corporate fortress in the future, and the plaza a director rebuilt to 1963 to restage history. This driving trail visits the genuine sites where Dallas, the 1967 Bonnie and Clyde, RoboCop, Oliver Stone's JFK, and Walker, Texas Ranger were filmed, every stop checked against the actual shoot or landmark. Some are open attractions, some are working buildings best admired from outside, and a couple come with real history that runs far deeper than the movies — Dealey Plaza and the old Municipal Building among them, which we treat as public-history sites first and film sets second. Roll camera and start the engine.