Arctic:
Hyperborea both that of the myth and the tales of Clark Ashton Smith.
Elisee Reclus Island, Crystallopolis (French Colony), Maurel City (American Colony), from Une Ville de Verre by Alphonse Brown.
Vichenbolk Land, island kingdom discovered by Lemuel Gulliver, from Pickles ou récits à la mode anglaise by André Lichtenberger.
North Pole Kingdom, a land populated by civilized dinosaurs living under the polar ice cap, from Le Peuple du Pôle by Carles Derennes.
Polar Bear Kingdom, inhabited by intelligent polar bears from 20,000 Lieues Sous Les Glaces (or 20,000 Leagues Under the Ice) by Mór Jóka
The Real North Pole, from The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel.
Peacepool, from The Water Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby by Charles Kingsley.
Santa Workshop and Snow Castle based on the play Santa Claus' Daughter and the movies Santa Claus [vs. The Devil], Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Gaster Island from The Fourth Book of the Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel by François Rabelais.
The Sea of Frozen Words from The Fourth Book of the Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel by François Rabelais.
Queen Island from Les Aventures du capitaine Hatteras, or (The Adventures of Captain Hatteras) by Jules Verne, also known as Rupes Nigra ("Black Rock"), Gerardus Mercator's map of the Arctic.
The Island of Thule, from The Bibliotheca historia (Library of History) by Diodorus Siculus, Geographika (Geography) by Strabo, and The Gothic War by Procopius.
The Back of the North Wind, a warm region of the Arctic, from At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald.
The Iron Mountains and the opening towards the center of the Earth from Anonymous, Voyage au center de 14 terre, ou aventures de quelques naufragés dans des pays inconnus. Traduit de Panglais de Sn Hormidas Peath.
The Portal to the Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World
The City of Centaurs from Speed Centaur.
The citadel where Amazona The Mighty Woman lives.
The underground kingdom of Arctica, a land of dense forests, strange creatures, and medieval civilization from King Anthony.
The underwater kingdom Polaris ruled by Prince Eon from the Neptina comics.
Europe:
UK:
Camelot from the Arturian Legend
Cleopolis from The Faerie Queene (1590 - 1596) by Edmund Spenser.
Abaton, a mythical Scottish phantom town that can only be glimpsed, from the work of Sir Thomas Bulfinch.
Yalding Towers, from E. Nesbit's The Enchanted Castle, which contains dinosaur statues that magically come to life.
Ravenal's Tower, where the remains of Richard Ravenal from E. Nesbit's The Wouldbegoods reside.
The White House, the residence of the Psammead from Five Children and It.
The Wish House from Rudyard Kipling's "The Wish House" (1926).
Exham Priory, from Lovecraft's The Rats in the Walls.
The floating island from The Floating Island by Richard Head (under the pseudonym "Frank Careless") (1673).
The village of Nutwood from the stories of Rupert Bear.
Nightmare Abbey, from Thomas Love Peacock's novel of the same name.
Diana's Grove from Bram Stoker's The Lair of the White Worm.
Toad Hall from Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.
The subterranean realm of the Vril-ya from The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
The underground Coal City from Jules Verne's The Black Indies.
The underground "Roman State" from Joseph O'Neill's Land Under England.
The Welsh village of Llyddwdd from The Chronic Argonauts by H.G. Wells.
Airfowlness, the meeting place of the crows from The Water Babies.
The Glittering Plain, from William Morris' The Story of the Glittering Plain, a valley that grants enters immortality, but making them unable to leave the valley.
The Isle of Ransom, also from The Story of the Glittering Plain.
Toyland from Babes in Toyland by Victor Herbert & Glen MacDonough
Manor Farm from Orwell's Animal Farm.
The City of Dreadful Night, from James Thomson's City of Dreadful Night.
Baskerville Hall from Conan Doyle's The Hound Of The Baskervilles.
Puddleby-on-the-Marsh from The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting.
In London is the Diogenes Club from the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Grand Babylon Hotel from the novel of the same name by Arnold Bennett, the Reform Club from Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days and in Kensington Gardens is the passage to Neverland from Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie.
The Hundred Acre Wood from Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne.
The setting of Oscar Wilde's The Selfish Giant.
Ireland:
The leprechaun realm of Gort Na Cloca Mora from Crock of Gold, by James Stephens.
Leixlip Castle, from Charles Robert Maturin's novel of the same name.
The setting of The House on the Borderland, by William Hope Hodgson, which is also a portal to a demonic world.
Italy:
The Castle of Otranto, from Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto.
Meloria Canal, from Emilio Salgari's The Navigators of the Meloria.
The Castle of Udolpho, from Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho.
The city of Acchiappacitrulli, Land of Toys from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.
The Palace of Prince Prospero, from Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death.
Scylla and Charybdis from Homer's Odyssey.
Switzerland:
Silling Castle, from the Marquis de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom.
The Little Kingdom of Swisslakia from Boy King & his Giant.
Austria:
The realm of King Astralgus, from Ferdinand Raimund's Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind.
The village of Eseldorf from Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger.
France:
The subterranean Grande Euscarie, inhabited by intelligent woolly mammoths from Luc Alberny's Le Mammouth Bleu.
The underground kingdoms of the Fattypuffs and Thinifers, the creation of André Maurois.
The Kingdom of Poictesme, from James Branch Cabell's satirical Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice.
Calejava, the republic from Claude Gilbert's Histoire de Calejava ou de l'Ilse des Hommes Raisonnables, avec le Paralelle de leur Morale et du Christianisme (1700).
Maleperduis, hiding place of Reynard the Fox from Le Roman de Renart written by Pierre de Saint-Cloud
Averoigne, from a series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith.
The Nameless Castle from Denis Diderot's Jacques le fataliste et son maître.
Auk, from Daniel Defoe's The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1724) and Anatole France's Penguin Island (1908) which refers back to Auk from Defoe's sequel.
The Abbey of Thélème, from Gargantua and Pantagruel.
The Hollow Needle is a naturally formed cave which Arsène Lupine used in Maurice Leblanc's The Aiguille Creuse.
Expiation City, from Pierre-Simon Ballanche's La Ville des Expiations.
Belgium:
Quiquendone, from Jules Verne's Une Fantaisie du Docteur Ox.
Germany:
Metropolis from the film by Fritz Lang.
Mummelsee and Centrum Terrae, from Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch.
The state of Meccania, from Meccania, the Super-State, by Owen Gregory
Horselberg, also known as Venusberg, from the legend of Tannhäuser.
Cockaigne, from medieval legend.
The Netherlands:
Vondervotteimittis, from Edgar Allan Poe's The Devil in the Belfry.
The island of Laiquihire, from Voyage Curieux d'un Philadelphe dans des Pays nouvellement Découverts.
Scandinavia:
Daland's Village, the only port where The Flying Dutchman is allowed to land.
Snæfellsjökull, from Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Nazar, from Ludvig Holberg's Niels Klim's Underground Travels.
The Snow Queen's Castle, from Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen.The Falun Fault, from E.T.A. Hoffmann's Die Bergwerke zu Falun.
Serbia:
Selene, the city of vampires from Paul Féval's La Ville-Vampire.
Poland:
The Wausau Swamp where the monster known as the Heap is found.
Ubu's kingdom, from Alfred Jarry's Ubu plays.
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