List of fictional buildings

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This is a selective list of buildings that are highly significant in their respective fictional works, and not merely a setting. Fictional schools are listed separately.

Contents 1 Churches, cathedrals, and abbeys 2 Hotels, motels, and lodges 3 Houses, mansions, and castles 4 Office buildings, corporate headquarters, and other commercial buildings 5 Casinos and Gambling Places 6 Other 7 See also

[edit] Churches, cathedrals, and abbeys

• The unnamed abbey in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.
• Northanger Abbey in Jane Austen's novel of the same name.
• Oublie Cathedral from Eternal Darkness, formerly a small church acts as the fictional setting for the assassination of Charlemagne the Frank. It is also the hiding place of one of the Ancients' essences.
• Redwall Abbey and the Church of St Ninians in the Redwall book series.
• Seven Holy Tombs (Roman Catholic church in "The Last Catholic In America" by John Powers)

[edit] Hotels, motels, and lodges

• The Atlantic Hotel, in F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh
• The Sleep Easy Motel in The Simpsons
• The Bates Motel, in Psycho
• Crossroads Motel later Hotel in Crossroads
• Shady Rest Hotel, Petticoat Junction
• The Enchanted Hunters, in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
• The Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's The Shining.
• The Possum Lodge in the fictional town of Possum Lake, Canada, in The Red Green Show.
• The Inn of the Prancing Pony, an inn in the town of Bree in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
• The Hyperion Hotel, a hotel owned by Angel Investigations in Joss Whedon's Angel (TV series).

[edit] Houses, mansions, and castles

• The Avengers Mansion, headquarters of Marvel Comics' supergroup The Avengers
• Bag End, Bilbo Baggins', later Frodo Baggins' and finally Samwise Gamgee and family's home, in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
• Bowser's Keep or Bowser's Castle, from various Mario games.
• The Castle in Franz Kafka's The Castle.
• Chetaux Malraux, is the home of the Family Malraux on the planet Vjun, in the Star Wars book, Yoda: Dark Rendevouz
• Clampett family mansion, The Beverly Hillbillies: The fancy estate which hillbilly Jed Clampett purchases with his oil fortune. It is located in Beverly Hills, California, and has 32 rooms, 12 of which are bedrooms.
• The Cottage, government safehouse for members of the Blackwood Project in the first season of War of the Worlds
• Edgewood, the home of the Drinkwater family in John Crowley's fantasy book Little, Big.
• Gormenghast, the castle that forms the main setting of the books Titus Groan and Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake.
• Grantleigh Manor setting for To The Manor Born
• Green Gables, in Anne of Green Gables.
• Gray House, in Timeline-191
• Halliwell Manor, the home of the Charmed Ones in the TV series Charmed
• Handyman Hall in Blott on the Landscape
• Hill House in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.
• Hyrule Castle, located either in the center or northern area of Hyrule in the Legend of Zelda video game series.
• Hollow Bastion in the Kingdom Hearts series.
• The House Absolute from the Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.
• The House on Haunted Hill in the horror films of the same name.
• The House of Usher, in Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.
• Justice Squad Manor, from Justice Squad
• Lancre Castle in the Discworld novels Wyrd Sisters and Lords and Ladies.
• Luigi's mansion from the video game Luigi's Mansion.
• Manderley, the home of Max de Winter in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.
• Mario's Pad in various Mario RPGs.
• Mordhaus- Mansion of Dethklok on Metalocalypse
• Pemberley, the ancestral home of Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
• Princess Peach's Castle from various Mario games.
• Rose Cottage, from Road to Avonlea.
• Rose Red, an ensouled mansion in Stephen King's teleplay of the same name.
• The Roivas Mansion from Eternal Darkness. Supposedly located in Rhode Island it is the central location of the game.
• The Sanctum Sanctorum, home of Marvel Comics' Doctor Strange.
• Satis House, the ruined mansion and home of Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.
• The Serehfa Fastness, the immense castle in Iain M. Banks' Feersum Endjinn whose gigantic rooms are home to all Earth's remaining population.
• The Spencer Mansion, from the video game Resident Evil.
• Southfork Ranch, from Dallas.
• Tara, the home of Margaret Mitchell's Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind.
• Thornfield Hall, the home of Mr. Rochester in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
• Van Der Poof Manor, form Justice Squad
• Wario's castle in various Wario games, and Wario's house located in Diamond City, in various WarioWare, Inc. games.
• Wayne Manor, home of Bruce Wayne in the Batman universe.
• Wintersgate, a mansion in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. whose structure is honeycombed with doorways that lead to the past. <space>From DC ComicsNight Force.
• Xanadu from Citizen Kane

See also: List of fictional addresses

[edit] Office buildings, corporate headquarters, and other commercial buildings

Main article: Skyscrapers in film

• The Baxter Building, former headquarters of The Fantastic Four.
• The Black Mesa Research Facility, from the computer game Half-Life.
• The Eyrie Building, headquarters of Xanatos Enterprises, from Gargoyles.
• The Fishkin Building - Stuart Little 2
• The Fountainhead, ill-fated office building in the novel of the same name.
• The Four Freedoms Plaza, replacement building for the Baxter Building.
• The Glass Tower in The Towering Inferno.
• Government Complex, Government building where Sal owns her flower stand. Megaman Battle Network
• Lily Mu Towers, Headquarters of the Lily Mu TV in Tokyo, Japan on Kappa Mikey
• The Lucerne Tower, the office building above the DataDyne Research Facility from the N64 Game Perfect Dark
• The offices of Megadodo Publications on Ursa Minor Beta from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
• Mertin-Flemmer building, from Being John Malkovich. Built by a man named Captain Mertin, it contains a 7½th floor and a portal into the brain of John Malkovich.
• Mogul Tower: TyranniCorp Headquarters, for Justice Squad
• Nakatomi Plaza in Die Hard.
• The New Tower of Babel from Metropolis.
• The Spiro Tower, from the book Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer.
• Taggart Building, the headquarters of Taggart Transcontinental in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
• Tregoweth Brown Building, the cornerstone of which contained Michigan J. Frog, in One Froggy Evening.

[edit] Casinos and Gambling Places

• Casino Royale, used in James Bond: Casino Royale.
• The Tangiers Casino in Las Vegas, used in Casino and later CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
• The Three Feathers Casino in Colorado, used in South Park.
• The Big Shot Casino in Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.
• The Ali Baba Hotel & Casino in an episode of Full House.
• The Montecito Hotel & Casino used in Las Vegas (TV series)

[edit] Other

• Abelard Sanctuary, in Brotherhood of the Rose
• Arkham Asylum, the mental hospital in Gotham City
• Bada Bing, Silvio Dante's strip club from The Sopranos
• Barad-dûr, Sauron's stronghold in Mordor in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
• The Batcave, headquarters for Batman.
• Brookhaven Hospital, from the Silent Hill videogame series.
• The Braun Llama Dome, hybrid tourist attraction in SimCity 2000.
• Central Perk coffee shop in Friends.
• The Citadel from the Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.
• The Clinic for Paranormal Research in Wisconsin, in Marvel Comics' New Universe.
• The Flash Museum, a museum in Central City dedicated to the Flash.
• The Flugelheim Museum in Gotham City (an antithesis of the Guggenheim Museum).
• The Fortress of Solitude, where Superman spends some of his time.
• The Grand Hall of Justice in Mega-City One, Justice Department headquarters, in the Judge Dredd comic strip in 2000 AD.
• The Hall of Justice, in Super Friends.
• Hill Valley Courthouse, with famed clock tower, in the Back to the Future trilogy of films.
• Isengard, a fortress belonging to Gondor, and Orthanc, the tower inside. Both were given to Saruman by Beren, Steward of Gondor (though they were later reclaimed when Saruman died), and appeared in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
• Kingdom Hospital in Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital, the television miniseries scripted by King and Richard Dooling, and in Dooling's tie-in book, The Journals of Eleanor Druse
• Matachin Tower in Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.
• Monk's Cafe in Seinfeld.
• The Citadel of Minas Tirith, a watch-tower within the city of Minas Tirith in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
• The buildings of the Ministries of Love, Truth, and Peace in London, Airstrip One, in the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
• The Montecito Casino, in Las Vegas.
• Sacred Heart Hospital, where the main characters work in Scrubs.
• Many starbases in Star Trek (although other starbases are structures in orbit around planets rather than buildings on the ground).
• Starfleet Headquarters, a building or building complex in San Francisco, California, Earth, in Star Trek.
• Starfleet Research and Development, a building or building complex in Tokyo, Japan, Earth, in Star Trek.
• The Tangiers Casino in Las Vegas, used in Casino and later CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
• The Three Feathers Casino in Colorado, used in South Park.
• The Superman Museum, a museum in Metropolis dedicated to Superman.
• The Forbidden City in the Middle-East, the Temple of Mantorok in Cambodia and the Roivas Estate in Providence, Rhode Island from Eternal Darkness.
• The Hive, from the movie adaptation of Resident Evil is a large research facility located a mile under the fictional urban centre of Raccoon City.
• The Temple of the Ancients, an actual Black Materia that is used to summon Meteor in Final Fantasy VII.
• St. Hugh's Hospital, apparently the only hospital in the fictional London Borough of Canley, setting of The Bill

[edit] See also

• Archive of fictional things
• List of fictional schools
• List of fictional companies
• List of fictional institutions
• Index of fictional places