Rosehill Cottage from The Holiday Was Never Real

The most famous cottage in romantic comedy history does not exist. Nancy Meyers had it built.

Meyers and production designer Jon Hutman found a real National Trust cottage for The Holiday, but it was isolated, more than four hours from London, and too expensive to work around. They built a replica instead: a stone shell in a field in Shere, Surrey, about an hour from the crew's base. The landscaping alone took close to a month, planting trees and building stone walls to make it look like it had been there for centuries. The interior scenes were shot separately, in a studio.

During filming, the fake cottage became a real tourist attraction. Hundreds of people showed up to see it every day. When production wrapped, they tore it down.

People keep adding The Holiday to their Backlot lists. The Christmas movie you rewatch in July.