The exotic real-life locations where scenes in the new 'Star Wars' were shot

Rey's desert home planet is where Poe Dameron heads to try and find the map to the missing Luke Skywalker, and it's where Dameron and Finn crash-land after escaping from Starkiller Base. Finn and Rey eventually meet on the planet and escape from attacking Stormtroopers on the Millennium Falcon.

This former RAF airbase was used as the Resistance's airbase on the planet D'Qar. You can see the location as the pilots prepare to head out on their mission to Starkiller Base. Poe and Finn reunite on the base after being separated in the crash on Jakku.

Puzzlewood is a woodland site in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy told the BBC that the filmmakers were searching for the "most magical forest on the face of the earth" and Puzzlewood "defined everything that we were looking for."

Some of the snowy scenes for the icy Starkiller Base were shot in Iceland, as confirmed by "Good Morning America." Though most specific locations haven't been confirmed, Iceland Magazine reports that the ice cap Eyjafjallajökull was used.

The film's final scene shows Rey encountering Luke Skywalker at his hideout, a remote, rocky island. It was shot about eight miles off the coast of Ireland on Skellig Michael, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the larger of the two Skellig Islands. A sixth-century Christian monastery is located on the island and can be reached after a climb up 618 steep steps.