Have you ever just sat on your couch and binge watched almost an entire season of Breaking Bad on a rainy day? We have and we aren’t ashamed! If you have ever seen the series it is pretty amazing and intense. Watching the chemistry teacher, Walt transform into his crime-ridden Heisenberg persona; and stoner Jessie becomes a hot headed salesman whose guilt eventually catches up with him. It’s all in the name of GREAT TV.
WARNING: MIGHT BE SOME SPOILERS FOR A FEW OF YOU!
As we were planning our cross-country road trip around the United States we knew we would be passing through Albuquerque, New Mexico – where the TV show was filmed. Walt’s house, the car wash, random streets, maybe even Walt’s grave stone. We figured it wouldn’t hurt if we wasted a little time and see what those places look like IRL.
You can find a lot of self-guided sightseeing tours on websites such as: https://www.visitalbuquerque.org/albuquerque/film-tourism/breaking-bad/
Walter White’s House
Walt’s House is not just a prop – a family has been living in this house for about 40 years. So if you do go for a drive-by, be very respectful and do not step on their property. When we drove by, we parked across the street as to not be so obvious. To our surprise, the couple who owns the house was sitting on lawn chairs in their driveway. We stepped out of our vehicle to take a photo, and the lady told us not to come any closer, but we could take as many photos as we’d like. As we did, the man asked us where we were from and tried to have a conversation with us. They are very nice if you show respect. The address of the house is 3828 Piermont Dr. As you will see, the house looks exactly as it did on the show, the only thing added are the NO TRESSPASSING signs and video cameras watching your every move.
A1A Car Wash
Breaking Bad turned a family owned car-wash into an A1 empire! Octopus Car Wash, formally known as Walt’s A1A Car Wash on the show, is a very popular car cleaning hot spot in Albuquerque. The car wash is located at 9516 Snow Heights Cir NE. We weren’t planning on seeing this place, but as we were driving down the street we just so happened to notice it looked familiar! There was such a long line we didn’t bother washing my car – although I wish we had!
Biking Tour
If you’d like to see a few places while getting your cardio in – try the Ultimate Biking Bad tour.
Walter White’s Tombstone
Walter White has a tombstone IRL. When the show ended, fans had a funeral on Oct 19th, 2013. The tombstone was placed at Sunset Memorial Park cemetery first, but after many complaints for obvious reasons, the tombstone now resides at a local strip mall as a tourist attraction. The address of the mall is 6855 4th St. NW. Read more here.
Now, go enjoy your Breaking Bad Sightseeing Road Trip!
“Tread Lightly”
I have to admit I have never seen this show, but everyone says it’s great! One of the main guys (the younger one) went to my high school, too, but he was older than me, haha. It looks like you guys had a fun trip, though! I guess I’m going to have to start watching Breaking Bad!
Do you mean Aaron Paul?! OMG! If I ever met him, I would probably have a heart attack. 🙂 That is so awesome! You must watch the show and let me know what you think. -Crystal
So cool! When we did drive through Albuquerque, we stopped by the car wash! We even washed our car there for kicks! 🙂 It was fun to read about the house…I never knew where it was located! 🙂
Wow!! What an adventure that must have been! How cool to see the house, the town, the tombstone. I never watched the show, but I know my husband saw at least one episode and was curious about it. We may just have to go check it out now. So many people enjoyed it.
This is something that is high up on the list of what my fiance and I want to do. We love Breaking Bad!
Looks like a fun trip! I can’t imagine living in a famous house like that. Yikes!
How fun – it’s always cool to see something in real life that you watched in a movie or on TV.
I loved that show and yes we have binged watched it (I think twice). Great idea finding places like that to stop while on a roadtrip.
Love your tagline and site! Breaking Bad is one of our favs too, thanks for sharing 🙂
I have never seen the show but it sounds like a cool thing to do!
What an awesome adventure for you two!
I loved this show. This looks like such a fun trip!
I’ve never seen the show, but it’s on my list of ones to watch. So cool that you got to see all of this.
A big car wash.
This sounds like so much fun! I only watched the first season, but it was intriguing.
I’m not familiar with the show, but your tour was great.
How fun! I loved Breaking Bad but I didn’t realize you could do this type of trip! I remember hearing about people throwing pizza’s on the roof of the house so i’m glad they have their signs and cameras up!
PIZZA’S?! Oh, wow. I never heard that happening, that is crazy.
That is the coolest road trip EVER! My kids wouldn’t really get the references, but I would be so excited to see it all in person.
What a fun trip! Being able to visit sites where tv shows were filmed sounds like a ton of fun! Bummer for me all my favorite shows were filmed in Vancouver! Ha!
I used to live in NM so when I watched the show I recognized lots of places. NM has had multiples movies and tv shows shot there.
Love it! I was a late comer when it came to the show. I binged watched it over a period of a month. That is awesome that you saw some of the sites on the show.
Oh shoot! We were in Albuquerque last summer and I never even thought about looking for places from Breaking Bad! I LOVED THIS SHOW. I guess I need to make another trip to see this!