
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson’s imaginary epitome of pre-war European luxury and sophistication, has a real-life equivalent. Both Anderson and production designer Adam Stockhausen have cited the Grandhotel Pupp in the Czech Republic’s spa town of Karlovy Vary as the primary inspiration for their fictional hotel.

Like the Grand Budapest, the Pupp fell into decline under Communism after being nationalized by Czechoslovakia’s government in 1951. However, it was acquired by private owners in 1989 and has now been restored to something of its former glory, with a medical spa and five restaurants. But alas, Gustave H.—Ralph Fiennes’ mustachioed concierge in The Grand Budapest Hotel—remains irreplaceable.