# 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:** 5
**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 18, 2020, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/81 "2020-08-18T06:19:22Z")
Yes, excellent, especially Amos and the Quivering Brethren. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/82 "2020-08-18T06:51:31Z")
More fictional taverns I’d like to frequent: **Lux** from _Lucifer_ and **Quark’s Bar, Grill, Gaming House and Holosuite Arcade** from _Deep Space Nine_. ---
**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 18, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/83 "2020-08-18T10:28:56Z")
Ooooo… I like it: a virtual, fictional pub crawl… ignoring time, space, distance, and well: reality. 🍺 🍻 ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/84 "2020-08-18T14:31:10Z")
Any [General Systems Vehicle](https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Systems_Vehicle) from [the Culture](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture). (OK, maybe not _Meatfucker_. And it was a smaller GCU anyway.) The whole point of the Culture is that it is human imagination unbounded. You could be, do, experience anything you could imagine. Any gender, body type, entity. Go anywhere. “It’s more _fun_ in The Culture!” ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/85 "2020-08-19T06:07:48Z")
Japanese anime is often based on real-life locations. There’s a not-trivial tourist industry devoted to anime settings. News article: about 5% of tourists in Japan surveyed said they had visited an anime or movie location. [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/15/national/japans-anime-tourism-lucrative-blend-cash-chaos/](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/15/national/japans-anime-tourism-lucrative-blend-cash-chaos/) Scientific article on the subject (!): [Anime pilgrimage in Japan: Focusing Social Influences as determinants - ScienceDirect](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261517719301256) One of many webpages showing real life pictures alongside matching anime pics. [A Pilgrimage to Your Name Locations (That You Can Follow)](https://www.tofugu.com/japan/your-name-locations/) Wilhelm Donko is an avid anime tourist who posts side-by-side shots on twitter. [https://twitter.com/Surwill](https://twitter.com/Surwill) A good roundup of his work: [https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2018/06/12-1/the-best-of-two-years-of-anime-vs-real-life?utm\_source=community\_cr&utm\_medium=twitter&utm\_campaign=news\_feature\_tweet\_from\_author&referrer=community\_cr\_twitter\_news\_feature\_tweet\_from\_author](https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2018/06/12-1/the-best-of-two-years-of-anime-vs-real-life?utm_source=community_cr&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=news_feature_tweet_from_author&referrer=community_cr_twitter_news_feature_tweet_from_author) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/86 "2020-08-19T07:26:57Z")
I assure you, you do not want to live in Green Acres. Maybe Sam Drucker’s General Store would be cool. As a diabetic of course Willie Wonka’s Chocolate Factory would hit the spot. Yep, I’m just ‘dying’ to go there. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/87 "2020-08-19T07:50:45Z")
No love for Magentalane? Learn about it here: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ap31Z-CeOA) Hey, anywhere where the sea of pink champagne flows, under rose coloured bainrows–I mean rainbows–that works for me. It feels so good to be back at home. ---
**Author:** ![bmasters1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/88 "2020-08-22T10:17:06Z")
I like the SFPD headquarters in _The Streets of San Francisco_ where Stone and Keller held court (also, Stone’s office in that same building). ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/89 "2020-09-19T22:48:16Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I’ll gladly join **What\_Exit** for a pint at the Prancing Pony in Bree. I’d also like to visit (and maybe stay awhile at) Rick’s Cafe Americain in Casablanca, 221B Baker Street in London, the Bridge of the USS _Enterprise_ , NCC-1701, the headquarters of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense in Newark, N.J., the Ministry of Magic in London and Hogwarts School in Scotland, and naturally the courtyard of the White Tree in Minas Tirith. If you’re able and willing to travel to Ticonderoga, NY, you can visit the TOS Enterprise. This guy has built an exact replica of the set. [https://www.startrektour.com/](https://www.startrektour.com/) ---
**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:** [September 20, 2020, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/90 "2020-09-20T00:41:50Z")
Come to think of it, I wouldn’t mind at least visiting or maybe even living in a lot of the villages shown in Midsomer county. As long as I don’t become one of the victims. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/91 "2020-09-20T01:25:50Z")
Nobody wants to go to Manderley? It sounded like a lovely estate except for the creepy housekeeper. I always wanted to sit by the fire with my spaniel Jasper at my feet. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/92 "2020-09-20T01:32:07Z")
For that matter, Downton Abbey looked like a very nice place to live, as long as I could be an upstairs houseguest. (Although the formal dress code would be a bit much to deal with.) ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/93 "2020-09-20T18:19:58Z")
Portmeiron is well worth visiting you happen to be in the area. It still looks exactly like it did in the show, beautiful and slightly odd. People actually live there! I like most of the art deco locations in Agatha Christie’s Poirot novels. My favourite is probably Eltham Palace, which was used in Three Act Tragedy and Death on the Nile. It’s not actually a palace, merely a large art deco house, but it’s gorgeous, with lots of fitted furniture, curved white lines, sunlights and so on. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/94 "2020-09-20T18:51:14Z")
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe would be fun. For a place I could actually visit, wherever Doc Martin is filmed. If the Large’s restaurant is really a restaurant, I’d love to have dinner and drinks on that patio. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/95 "2020-09-20T19:25:39Z")
That’s Cornwall, and it’s a great destination even without the Doc Martin stuff. There are lots of shops and tours and stuff related to it down there - I don’t know if the restaurant is real, but I know you can stay in the cottage that’s used as the exteriors for his home. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/96 "2020-09-20T19:36:49Z")
Nathan’s home in _Ex Machina_ is actually a hotel in Norway where you can stay for as little as $200 a night (once you’ve made the considerable effort to get there). Not sure if it’s “beloved,” but it sure looks pretty cool. > **[Startsiden | Juvet Landskapshotell](https://juvet.com/)** > > Juvet Landskapshotell. Dette unike hotellet ligg i Valldal på nordvestkysten i Noreg og er ei fantastisk blanding av rå natur, kulturhistorie og moderne arkitektur. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/97 "2020-09-20T20:01:48Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Awww… Opie was one of the more likable TV kids. No dispute. But the scene is most congenial as long as neither Barney nor Gomer show up. (ETA: nor Dennis the Menace.) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/98 "2020-09-20T20:14:29Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Any location from fiction . . . This leads me to think of the San Francisco Bay Area and some of the surrounding environs (Marin, Sonoma, Napa) as they were 50-some-or-more years ago, as remembered by me, seen through fantasy rose-colored glasses. (Hey, you said anything fictional, right?) Today, way too over-built, congested, polluted, gentrified some places, run-down and shabby in other places. ---
**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/99 "2020-10-04T19:58:08Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > Portmeiron is well worth visiting you happen to be in the area. It still looks exactly like it did in the show, beautiful and slightly odd. People actually live there! I’m more an armchair explorer now, especially in these covid times. A long time ago I discovered an acquaintance going to that area, and convinced him to go. He pretty much agrees with you. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100/100 "2020-10-04T22:54:14Z")
Just don’t go to Portmeiron during a Prisoner festival. I think they’re biennial events, with lots of “activities” (including a tournament using the human chessboard, of course). But I’d hate that, preferring a little quiet. > [@Kzbre5m](#): > > I’m more an armchair explorer now, ps, I love this concept. Who cares if I can’t travel; I’ll pick a spot and research it, and immerse myself in photos and articles and movies until I feel like I’ve been there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beloved-fictional-locations-tv-movies-books-stories-etc/913100.md?page=6)