10 Video Game Locations You Didn't Know Actually Exist

3. Anor Londo (Dark Souls)/ Il Duomo Di Milano (Milan, Italy)

Anor Londo Il Duomo
From Software/By Jiuguang Wang [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia Commons

When Dark Souls' designer Masanori Waragai visited Milan, he imagined how incredible it'd be to walk across the flying buttresses of the city's iconic Duomo.

When it came to making his gruelling, Gothic'em up, he didn't miss the opportunity to make it a reality; Anor Londo's centrepiece is an almost exact facsimile of its Italian inspiration. It's a much less fun holiday destination, though.

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