[Times art: Don Morris]

Major locations in The Punisher

1. Channelside shipyards: Site of several nighttime action scenes including the first, an FBI sting where the son of Howard Saint (John Travolta) is killed.

Geiger home2. Former NBA star Matt Geiger’s North Pinellas home: Doubles as Saint’s mansion.

3. Hillsborough Community College campus: A former hospital here doubles as the morgue where Saint identifies his son’s body.

4. Private home near MacDill Avenue and Euclid Street: The home in Virginia of Frank “The Punisher” Castle (Thomas Jane).

5. Myrtle Hill Cemetery: Where the Saints (Travolta and Laura Harring) order the Castle family executed after burying their own son, killed in an FBI sting arranged by Castle.

bathhouse6. Honeymoon Island State Park: A bathhouse doubles as the Puerto Rican beach house where the Castles enjoy a family reunion until Saint’s hit men arrive.

7. Fort De Soto Park: The roads, beach and pier are presented as within a mile or two of the Puerto Rican beach house. A car chase here ends with Castle’s wife and son murdered and Castle left for dead.

8. Tampa Port Authority, Terminal Six: Interiors of the rundown apartments/warehouse where Castle and his cronies live were built on sound stages here. Exteriors were filmed across from Tampa’s historic train station.

9. The Claw Golf Course at USF: Where Saint finds a clue about Castle’s survival while golfing.

money grab10. AmSouth building (100 N Tampa St.): The bottom floor was remodeled into the lobby of the Saint Building. Pedestrians outside on Tampa Street are shown snatching money Castle orders dropped from an upstairs window.

11. 400 Ashley Plaza, a.k.a. the beer can building: Site of the Saints and Sinners nightclub.

12. Ybor City: Latam restaurant doubled as a nightclub owned by Saint associates the Toro brothers. Exteriors were filmed at the Columbia Restaurant.

13. Private home on Davis Islands: Doubles as the home of Quentin Glass (Will Patton).

14. Wyndham Harbor Island Hotel: Where Livia Saint goes for her workouts.

Sunshine Skyway15. Sunshine Skyway bridge: Site of the movie’s final shot, a zoom-in to “The Punisher” pledging to always get the bad guys.
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