Name | Description |
Agartha | A legendary city at the Earth's core. |
Alfheim | Land of elves in Norse mythology. |
Annwn | The "otherworld" of Welsh mythology. |
Asgard | The high placed city of the gods, built by Odin chief god of the Norse pantheon. |
Asphodel Meadows | In Greek mythology, the section of the underworld where ordinary souls were sent to live after death. |
Atlantis | The legendary (and almost archetypal) lost continent that was supposed to have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean. |
Avalon | Legendary Island of Apples, believed by some to be the final resting place of King Arthur. |
Axis Mundi | The center of the world or the connection between Heaven and Earth in various religions and mythologies. |
Ayotha Amirtha Gangai | An important river in Ayyavazhi mythology. |
Aztlan | Legendary original homeland of the Mexica people in Mexica/Aztec mythology. |
Baltia | An island of amber somewhere in northern Europe. |
Barzakh | The barrier between the physical and spiritual worlds according to Islamic eschatology. |
Biarmaland | A mighty kingdom described in Norse sagas which lies to the north of Russia. |
Brahmapura | The abode of Brahma, the Hindu god of creation. |
Brasil or Hy-Brasil | A mythical island to the west of Ireland. |
Brittia | A mythical island off the coast of Austrasia. |
Camelot | The city in which King Arthur reigned. |
City of the Caesars | A city between a mountain of gold and another of diamonds supposed to be situated in Patagonia. |
Cloud cuckoo land | A perfect city between the clouds in the play The Birds by Aristophanes. |
Cockaigne | In medieval mythology, it is a land of plenty where want does not exist. |
El Dorado | Rumored city of gold in South America. |
Elysian Fields | In Greek mythology, the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous. |
Garden of the Hesperides | In Greek mythology, the sacred garden of Hera from where the gods got their immortality. |
Garden of Eden | The garden of God, described in the Book of Genesis. |
Gorias, Finias, Murias, and Falias | In Irish Mythology the Tuatha Dé Danann get their four magical treasures from four legendary cities: Gorias in the east; Finias, in the south; Murias in the west; and Falias in the north. |
Hawaiki | The ancestral island of the Polynesians, particularly the Māori. |
Heaven | The realm in Abrahamic religions, in which pious people who have died continue to exist in an afterlife. |
Hel | Underworld in Norse mythology |
Hell | The underworld in Abrahamic religions, in which evil or unrepentant people are punished after death. |
Hyperborea | A land to the north in Greek mythology. |
Irkalla | The underworld from which there is no return in Babylonian mythology. |
Islands of the Blessed | In Greek mythology, a paradise reserved for the souls of the great heroes. |
Jotunheim | Land of the giants in Norse mythology. |
Kingdom of Reynes | A country mentioned in the Middle English romance King Horn. |
Kingdom of Saguenay | According to the French, an Iroquoian story of a kingdom of blonde men rich in gold and fur that existed in northern Canada prior to French colonization. |
Kolob | An astronomical body (star or planet) said to be near the throne of God in Mormon cosmology. |
Kvenland | Land next to Sweden at the northern shores of Baltic sea, probably ancient Finland or some of its parts. |
Kyöpelinvuori | (Finnish for ghosts' mountain), in Finnish mythology, is the place which dead women haunt. |
La Ciudad Blanca | "The White city", a legendary city of Honduras |
Lake Parime | An enormous lake in northeastern South America, supposedly the site of El Dorado |
Lemuria | A hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. |
Lyonesse | A country in Arthurian legend, which is said to border Cornwall in England. |
Mag Mell or Tir na nÓg | The afterworld of Irish mythology. |
Meropis | A gigantic island created purely as a parody of Plato's Atlantis. |
Mictlan | The afterworld of the Mexica. |
Mount Olympus | In Greek mythology the mountain is referred to as "home of the gods", specifically the Twelve Olympians. |
Mu | A hypothetical continent that allegedly disappeared at the dawn of human history. |
Muspelheim | Land of fire in Norse mythology. |
Nibiru | A mythological planet described by the Babylonians. |
Niflheim | World of cold in Norse mythology. |
Niflhel | Cold underworld in Norse mythology. |
Norumbega | A legendary settlement in northeastern North America, connected with attempts to demonstrate Viking incursions in New England. |
Nysa | A beautiful valley full of nymphs in Greek mythology. |
Paititi | A legendary Inca lost city or utopian rich land said to lie east of the Andes. |
Pandæmonium | The capital of Hell in John Milton's Paradise Lost |
Purgatory | In some Abrahamic religions, a place where impure souls of those who die are made ready for Heaven. |
Quivira and Cíbola | Two of the legendary Seven Cities of Gold supposed by Spanish conquistadors to have existed in the Americas. |
Scholomance | A legendary school of black magic run by the Devil himself,located in Hermannstadt (now : Sibiu, Romania).Located in the mountains,south of the city Sibiu, near an unnamed lake. |
Sierra de la Plata | (Spanish: Silver Mountains), was a legendary treasury of silver that was believed to be located in South America. |
Shambhala | In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, a kingdom hidden somewhere in the Himalayas; Theosophists regard it as the home on the etheric plane of the governing deity of our planet Sanat Kumara. |
Shangri-La | A mystical, harmonious valley enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. |
Sodom and Gomorrah | Mythical cities mentioned in the Bible which were destroyed by God because their people did not obey god. |
Suddene | A country found in the Middle English romance King Horn. |
Summerland | The name given by Theosophists, Wiccans and some earth-based contemporary pagan religions to their conceptualization of an (mostly pastoral) afterlife. |
Svartálfaheimr | The land of the Dark Elves in Norse mythology. |
Tartarus | in Greek mythology, a pit in the underworld for condemned souls. |
Takama-ga-hara | The dwelling place of the Shinto kami. |
Themiscyra | the capital city of the Amazons in Greek mythology. |
Thule | An island somewhere in the belt of Scandinavia, northern Great Britain, Iceland, and Greenland. |
Thuvaraiyam Pathi | In Ayyavazhi mythology, it was a sunken island some 150 miles off the south coast of India. |
Valhalla | (from Old Norse Valhöll "hall of the slain") is a majestic, enormous hall located in Asgard, ruled over by the god Odin. |
Westernesse | A country found in the Middle English romance King Horn. |
Xibalba | The underworld in Mayan mythology. |
Yomi | The land of the dead according to Shinto mythology, as related in the Kojiki. |
Ys | A city located in Brittany, France that was supposedly built below sea level, and destroyed when the Devil destroyed the dam protecting it. |