For a story about sharp teeth, you really couldn't find a better setting than Forks, Washington (Prongs, Minnesota? Spikes, Oregon?). All vamping aside, it's hard to beat Forks, which is such a perfectly prickly small-town name that you'd be forgiven for thinking it sprung directly from writer Stephenie Meyer's imagination. But (unlike our attempts) you might be surprised to learn that Forks is a real place, and you can find it on any map of Washington state — population hovering around 3,000+ and cloudy as all get-out. The town sign featured in Twilight's opening minutes (the one with "Forks" cut out of wood like an 8th grade shop project) is the real thing too.