History Main / MacGuffinLocation

* The titular castle in ''BarbieAndTheDiamondCastle''.

* ''TheDarkTower'' has...well...

* Every location on ''TheAmazingRace''.

* Shinzo in, well, ''{{Shinzo}}.'' There's just one problem, [[{{Macekre}} There is no "Shinzo" in the original Japanese version]][[hottip:*:called "Mushrambo", after the main character's [[FusionDance fusion form]]]].

* In ''FinalFantasyVII'', Shinra's main motivation is to find the 'promised land'.
* "Your Sanctuaries" in ''EarthBound''.
* The Tower in the ''PanzerDragoon'' Series

* A slightly odd example is Releeshahn in the third ''{{Myst}}'' game. Releeshahn is a book that is an access to a location, and you have to retrieve the book.

* ''OutlawStar'' has people searching for the location of the fabled Galactic Leyline, presumably a giant stash of valuable minerals or other treasure. Actually, [[spoiler:it's a repository of knowledge, and after it's found ''it runs away again'' so that the chase can start all over.]]
** Technically the place seems to be a [[spoiler:LiteralGenie GeniusLoci, capable and willing to fulfill any wish that a person reaching its core chooses to make. A person wishing for knowledge will be swallowed in its datastream, however.]]

* JulesVerne's ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' and all of its adaptations.

* The Tomb Of Sephotic in Creator/RobertWestall's ''Literature/UrnBurial.'' Somewhere on Fiend's Fell in Cumbria, there's a hidden tomb to an alien weapons maker, that's filled with weapons he built that no one knows how to build or counter any more.

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* Shangri-La, a Himalayan paradise where people live far longer than the normal human lifespan, was invented by James Hilton in his 1931 novel ''LostHorizon''. The novel and subsequent movie inspired many people to believe that Shangri-La was real; the Nazis sent an expedition to Tibet in 1938 to look for it.

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* FamiliarGround [[http://www.familiar-ground.com/2009/03/13/short-term-memory/ The cave]]. [[spoiler:because they do not, in fact, get any answers]]

* Candy Mountain, [[CharlieTheUnicorn Charlie]]!

* A slightly odd example is Releeshahn in the third {{Myst}} game. Releeshahn is a book that is an access to a location, and you have to retrieve the book.

* Until the real thing was discovered near Istanbul, Turkey, many scholas thought that Troy was one of these as well. Ditto many other locations in ancient lore (and sometimes even people).

* The Vault in ''{{Borderlands}}''

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** There's also All Blue, a sea apparently located in the Grand Line where fish from around the world travel and Sanji's personal destination.

* Shinzo in, well, ''{{Shinzo}}.'' There's just one problem, [[{{Macekre}} There is no "Shinzo" in the original Japanese version[[hottip:*:called "Mushrambo", after the main character's fusion form]]]].

* Shinzo in, well, ''{{Shinzo}}.'' There's just one problem, [[{{Macekre}} There is no "Shinzo" in the original Japanese version[[hottip:*:called "Mushrambo", after the main character's [[FusionDance fusion form]]]]]].

* Shinzo in, well, ''{{Shinzo}}.''

* The ''DoctorWho'' episode's eponymous ''Utopia''. [[spoiler: That turned out well, didn't it?]]

** Which itself is said to be located in All Blue, a sea where fish from around the world travel and Sanji's personal destination.

** Even though he [[WordOfGod starts the narration]] by pointing out that Atlantis is '''not''' a real place, but an hipothetical example of how governments ''should'' be run.

* Every Pitstop location on ''TheAmazingRace''.

A MacGuffin doesn't necessarily have to take the form of an object. This is the case where the MacGuffin is an actual location. A place where everyone's trying to get to (or get there first), but the actual place doesn't have any impact on the plot.

This happens quite often in shows featuring races. It often doesn't matter whether the finish line is in Cairo, New Zealand, or Omaha.

This happens quite often in shows featuring races?It often doesn't matter whether the finish line is in Cairo, New Zealand, or Omaha.

A MacGuffin doesn't necessarily have to take the form of an object. This is the case where the MacGuffin is an actual location?A place where everyone's trying to get to (or get there first), but the actual place doesn't have any impact on the plot.