# Beloved fictional locations-- TV, movies, books, stories, etc **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 26, 2020, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100 "2020-06-26T01:07:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/61 "2020-08-15T17:20:20Z")
The Doctor’s TARDIS. Not so much for the looks or comfort, but for what it can do. Although the dark wood paneling from the late Sarah Jane/early Leela era did look elegant. Hanging Gardens of Babylon with a side trip to sixteenth century Venice? Sounds like fun! Let’s do it! ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/62 "2020-08-15T17:24:15Z")
Also Fawlty Towers for the rat, and the majestic wildebeest. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/63 "2020-08-15T20:23:24Z")
With Callahan’s you beat me to it, but I was also thinking of the main parlor in Lady Sally’s place. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/64 "2020-08-15T22:22:08Z")
I know it’s a cartoon, but I want to live in BoJack Horseman’s house. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/65 "2020-08-15T22:36:39Z")
Cartoon locations welcome. Any location from fiction, film, TV, poetry, a painting qualifies. I’d like to hang out in the house where [The Family Circus](https://i2.wp.com/www.dailycartoonist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/circus-60.gif) lives. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/66 "2020-08-15T22:43:38Z")
^ Not me. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/67 "2020-08-15T22:44:14Z")
😇 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/68 "2020-08-15T23:18:42Z")
Rivendell, Lothlorien, and Hobbiton from Middle-Earth. I know that Peter Jackson’s _Lord of the Rings_ movies aren’t universally beloved among Tolkien’s fans, but to me, he got the looks of all three of those places just right. The titular radio station from _WKRP in Cincinnati_. The town of Cicely, Alaska, from _Northern Exposure_. The Brick bar and grill, KBHR radio, Ruth-Ann’s store…I loved all of it. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/69 "2020-08-15T23:52:48Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > The titular radio station from _WKRP in Cincinnati_ . > > The town of Cicely, Alaska, from _Northern Exposure_ . The Brick bar and grill, KBHR radio, Ruth-Ann’s store…I loved all of it.- Oh yeah. Both of these. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/70 "2020-08-16T00:33:20Z")
Oh! The Gertrude Hawke Inn from the Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper series. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/71 "2020-08-16T00:36:35Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > The town of Cicely, Alaska, from _Northern Exposure_ . Well, you can head southeast out of Seattle, visit the Twin Peaks locations (we had a wonderful brunch at the lodge where Agent Cooper stayed), then end up in Cicely, AK… Although it’ll really be Roslyn, WA. Remember that café with the camel on the side? It was _Roslyn’s_… well, they just pasted that 'pstrophe S on there. It’s the Roslyn Café: > **[Roslyn WA](https://www.theeatingplaces.com/roslyn-cafe-roslyn-wa/)** > > After skiing late lunch: Roslyn Cafe. This is the cafe of Northern Exposure fame....as is almost everything in the town of Roslyn! Very busy place on week And there’s The Brick, and Ruth Ann’s store next to a quaint hardware/general store, and a storefront with Dr. Joel Fleischmann painted on the window… fun trip. And one of the few places in this thread that you can actually visit. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/72 "2020-08-16T00:45:44Z")
> [@digs](#): > > And one of the few places in this thread that you can actually visit. I’ve heard that one can see the locations there. Once we get past this dumb virus, I’ll have to make the trek someday. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/73 "2020-08-16T00:49:31Z")
I’d be afraid of the Phantom Zone grandparents hovering around during “my time”. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/74 "2020-08-16T14:24:17Z")
I’d like to visit the Rainbow Bridge, and see all my little lost kitties. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/75 "2020-08-16T14:49:47Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#): > > I’d like to visit the Rainbow Bridge, and see all my little lost kitties.- As far as I’m concerned, that’s not a fictional location! I plan to go there someday where I will be mobbed by cats and dogs (a couple of parakeets) and surrounded by yelps, meows, wagging tails, licks, slobber, nose boops, barks, and more joy than I can possibly contain. 🥰 The most important thing is that I will never have to say goodbye to any of them ever again. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/76 "2020-08-16T14:59:22Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I plan to go there someday where I will be mobbed by cats and dogs (a couple of parakeets) and surrounded by yelps, meows, wagging tails, licks, slobber, nose boops, barks, and more joy than I can possibly contain. That’ll be me, too. Then, after a few years of that I’ll say “Oh, yeah, I forgot there are people here, too. I should probably say hi to my folks…” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/77 "2020-08-16T21:14:05Z")
The Psyche! office, Jim Rockford’s trailer, Green Acres, the original NCC-1701, and the TARDIS. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/78 "2020-08-16T21:39:29Z")
As for fictional locations I’ve actually been to, I’ve been to [the Whistle Stop Cafe in Julliette GA](http://www.thewhistlestopcafe.com/the-whistle-stop-cafe-menu.php). They filmed the movie _Fried Green Tomatoes_ there. Yes, the food is very good. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/79 "2020-08-17T06:17:30Z")
If I’m in the mood for a real regression, it would have to be the Hundred Acre Wood with Pooh and Piglet. Though I tend more to be either Eeyore or Owl. Or perhaps Scatterbrook Farm with Worzel Gummidge. But definitely not Cold Comfort Farm (much as I enjoy re-reading it). ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/80 "2020-08-17T17:36:25Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > But definitely not Cold Comfort Farm (much as I enjoy re-reading it).- Have you seen the [movie](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112701/)? It’s quite good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100.md?page=5)