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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The metaphorical as well as specific place of folklore & Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts, by the author Daniel Defoe.
The fantastical islands originally desribed in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver.
Expanded as Never Neverland; Neverland is the dwelling place of Peter Pan originally conceptualized in the play by J.M. Barrie.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The mystical, harmonious valley, enclosed in the western end of the Himalaya in James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon.
The High city of the gods e.g. Odin and Thor etc. in Norse mythology; which is similar to other mythology.
Where the Fable series takes place; a region of city-states. © 2013 Microsoft Corporation..
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.
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.
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.
A fictional island from the LucasArts © 2013 Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd.
The underwater city in the BioShock series. © 2002 - 2012 Take-Two Interactive Software.
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.
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.
All lands/regions/continents of the World of Warcraft series. © 2013 Blizzard Entertainment.
The realms of the Shadow of the Colossus Collection © 2013 Sony.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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 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 is a fictional utopia from the imagination of author and illustrator James Gurney.
The primary setting for the illustrated book Where the Wild Things Are, 1963 by Maurice Sendak.
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 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.
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.
The primary setting of the Disney Little Mermaid Series.
The very fantastical setting of the Neverending Story. It is also the realm of Disney's Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 full feature animations.
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 are the two Renaissance like countries that are the setting of the Princess Bride film.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit Toontown is a city near Los Angeles, California where animated characters, known as Toons, live.
The region where the characters of KungFu Panda live in the computer animated series
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.
The setting of Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas.
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.
The ficticious continent based on 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels is now a well known telvision series entitled "Game of Thrones."
The City of Blade Runner, a future adaptation of Los Angeles, is a disorganized conglomeration of other cities where everything is a replica.
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.
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 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.