Veering from the topic of tourist sites, a good example of the pleasure of
being "in the know" about film locations and how that works with the
identity of a place comes to mind from _The Graduate_.  It's not so much
the fact that the film takes place at Berkeley, but knowledge about what
is and is not accurate that people love to make sure you know.  So as an
adolescent it was kind of a measure of coolness to know, and let others
know you knew, that Dustin Hoffman was going the wrong direction on the
bay bridge when he was supposedly going to see Katharine Ross at Berkeley,
or that shots supposedly of the Berkeley campus are really of Stanford.
It also always sort of seemed to me like a measure of non-natives showing
that they were becoming Californians, Northern Californians, if they could
identify these things in conversation.