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This is the Alpha and Omega map, basically an A to Z, of all fictional realms as detailed in Pop-culture. Please select a genre from the dropdown or simply start clicking the nodes.

Camelot/Avalon

Fantasy

Arthurian Legend is so realistic that some believe that King Arthur is real yet he is fiction based on history. The code and chivalry are real regarding an idea of the Knights of the Round Table yet all characters were invented. Merlin is a ficticious wizard who has been used in many fantasy based works.

Middle-Earth

Fantasy

The Lord of the Rings' and The Hobbit's fictional realm in which all story locations exist e.g. the Shire, Revendale, and Mordor by JRR Tolkein.

Wonderland

Fantasy

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. This is also speculated to be a general term for North Western Europeans describing a place full of wonderful things whether imagined or of folklore.

Narnia

Fantasy

Where all of the fantastical events of The Chronicles of Narnia Series take place. The series was written by a friend of JRR Tolkein's; Clive Staples Lewis.

Fairy Land

Fantasy

The dreamlike place of Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women by George MacDonald as well as the "Fairy Land" poem by William Shakespeare.

Davy Jones' Locker

Fantasy

The metaphorical as well as specific place of folklore & Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts, by the author Daniel Defoe.

Lilliput and Blefuscu

Fantasy

The fantastical islands originally desribed in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver.

Neverland

Fantasy

Expanded as Never Neverland; Neverland is the dwelling place of Peter Pan originally conceptualized in the play by J.M. Barrie.

The island of Atlantis / Utopia

Fantasy

Lost city of Atlantis, The mythical city which some believe to have existed thousands of years ago in the atlantic ocean near Europe. Plato wrote in detail about a forgotten and ancient city which would have existed about 9,600 BCE. It was described as a Utopia. Several expedition and speculatative ventures have resulted in nill.

El Dorado

Fantasy

Once thought to be a real place in South America, El Dorado was eagerly sought after by Spanish explorers as it was thought to be rich in treasure. Several expedition and speculatative ventures have resulted in nill.

Terabithia

Fantasy

The land of Bridge to Terabithia is a work of children's literature about two lonely children who create a magical forest kingdom. It was written by Katherine Paterson.

Tabor of Snow White

Fantasy

The realm owned by the Princess of Tabor - originally detailed in Grimms Fairy Tales no. 53 and Schneewittchen by Alexander Zick - as shown in the film Snow White and the Huntsman.

Shangri-La

Fantasy

The mystical, harmonious valley, enclosed in the western end of the Himalaya in James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon.

Asgard

Fantasy

The High city of the gods e.g. Odin and Thor etc. in Norse mythology; which is similar to other mythology.

Albion

Animation or Video Game

Where the Fable series takes place; a region of city-states. © 2013 Microsoft Corporation..

Los Santos

Animation or Video Game

A fictional county based on the real county of Los Angeles, California; chronologically the fourth installment of the Grand Theft Auto Series © 2013 Rockstar Games.

Raccoon City

Science Fiction

A city in the mid-west theoretically destroyed by the fictional T-Virus (1998) in the Resident Evil series of movies and video games. © 2013 Capcom.

Silent Hill

Animation or Video Game

A fictional mining town in the Silent Hill video game series. It is based on Centralia, PA which is a mining town of a eleven people total. It still has a fire burning in the coal mine that's been burning for the last 40 years. © 2013 Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.

Monkey Island

Animation or Video Game

A fictional island from the LucasArts © 2013 Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd.

Rapture

Animation or Video Game

The underwater city in the BioShock series. © 2002 - 2012 Take-Two Interactive Software.

Mushroom World (Kingdom)

Animation or Video Game

The fictional realm made up for the Super Mario Bros. video game series. The many games have different lands/worlds of their own as well as castles etc., however, the Mushroom World or Kingdom or Mario World refers to a general realm i.e. the known areas of the Super Mario universe. Mushroom Kingdom also refers to the original games Mushroom Kingdom owned by Princess Peach. © 2013 Nintendo.

Hyrule

Animation or Video Game

The realm of the Legend of Zelda series of games. The original realm was called Hyrule. For the Switch the realm is the same only about 100 years into the future where Ganon rules supreme. Twilight Realm was used to reflect the areas in the Wii versions. © Nintendo.

Azeroth

Animation or Video Game

All lands/regions/continents of the World of Warcraft series. © 2013 Blizzard Entertainment.

Land of Ico

Animation or Video Game

The realms of the Shadow of the Colossus Collection © 2013 Sony.

Black Mesa

Science Fiction

The Black Mesa Research Facility is the main location of the video game called Half-Life and its three expansions; Opposing Force, Blue Shift, and Decay. The Black Mesa base was a launch facility. This fictional place is at an undisclosed New Mexico desert location. It has a similar number to the Area 51 and Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory. © 2013 Valve Corporation published by Sierra Studios. (Mentioned in Half-Life 2 © 2013 Valve Corporation and Microsoft Corporation)

City-17

Science Fiction

A futuristic Eastern-European city that is politically very much like the communist realities that exist in 3rd world countries. This is a main level in the video game called Half-Life 2. © 2013 Valve Corporation.

Forgotten Realms

Board Game / Video Game / Film

The Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game for Dungeons and Dragons. ©1995-2013 Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. There are also video games and a full feature film.

Gotham City

Graphic Novel or Illustrated Book

The DC Comics comic book primary location/city where Bruce Wayne lives and his alter ego Batman. In the US it is also well known as New York city at night.

Metropolis / Smallville

Graphic Novel or Illustrated Book

Clark Kent steps out of his parent's house in Smallville to make it in the big city called Smallsville. It is also the German expressionist science-fiction film 1927. *Smallville, Kansas is a coincidental name and is not referenced here or in the Superman franchise. Warner Bros. did not create the Superman series but owns the current trademark.

Sin City

Graphic Novel or Illustrated Book

Sin City is the title for a series of neo-noir comics by Frank Miller. It was made into a full feature film by the same name. (It is also known as the nick name for Las Vegas, Nevada)

Dinotopia

Graphic Novel or Illustrated Book

Dinotopia is a fictional utopia from the imagination of author and illustrator James Gurney.

Island of Where the Wild Things Are

Graphic Novel or Illustrated Book

The primary setting for the illustrated book Where the Wild Things Are, 1963 by Maurice Sendak.

Whoville

Graphic Novel or Illustrated Book

The primary setting for How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss. It is also the setting for the very well known animated Christmas special by the same name. It also happens to be a location in the other illustrated book titled Horton Hears a Who!

The 100 Acre Woods

Graphic Novel or Illustrated Book

The primary rural setting described in Winnie The Pooh by A. A. Milne. It is the area that Christopher Robin explores as well as where the characters have their adventures.

The Land of OZ

Fantasy

First introduced in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Oz is one of many fantasy countries in the book series. There are various areas in Oz. The best known and middle area is called Emerald City.

Atlantica

Animation or Video Game

The primary setting of the Disney Little Mermaid Series.

Fantasia

Animation or Video Game

The very fantastical setting of the Neverending Story. It is also the realm of Disney's Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 full feature animations.

Lord Farquaad's Kingdom

Animation or Video Game

The Shrek series has a primary location called Lord Farquaad's Kingdom. This setting has all of the areas that Dreamworks adapted from Fairy Tales.

Florin and Guilder

Fantasy

Florin and Guilder are the two Renaissance like countries that are the setting of the Princess Bride film.

Toontown

Animation or Video Game

Who Framed Roger Rabbit Toontown is a city near Los Angeles, California where animated characters, known as Toons, live.

Valley of Peace

Animation or Video Game

The region where the characters of KungFu Panda live in the computer animated series

Never-before-charted Pacific Island

Science Fiction

The setting of the Lost television series. It is a mystical island with where supernatural events happen to a group of stranded airplane passengers that crash landed.

Christmas Town

Animation or Video Game

The setting of Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas.

Bregna

Science Fiction

The original AEon Flux shown on a television series called Liquid TV on MTV was an animation. The film was a live action Science Fiction movie with special effects and an adapted story.

Westeros

Fantasy

The ficticious continent based on 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels is now a well known telvision series entitled "Game of Thrones."

The Los Angeles of Blade Runner

Science Fiction

The City of Blade Runner, a future adaptation of Los Angeles, is a disorganized conglomeration of other cities where everything is a replica.

Labyrinth

Fantasy

A film by Jim Henson in which a pretty girl makes a wish to loose her baby brother. The film constists of Sarah trying to find Toby in a fantastical dimension. She has to navigate a strange labyrinth to get him back.

Zion

Science Fiction

The underground city of the Matrix series in it's real life version where the last humans are 'awake'. The film speculates that our reality is merely a technologic Virtual reality experience endused by a slave driving race of advanced robots in a distant future.

The bamboo forests of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Fantasy

The martial arts film features fantastical landscapes and amazing stunts. A primary landscape is a bamboo forest based on forests such as Arashiyama, a forest outside of Kyoto, Japan.