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 lives.
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.
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:
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.
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.
As for fictional locations I’ve actually been to, I’ve been to the Whistle Stop Cafe in Julliette GA. They filmed the movie Fried Green Tomatoes there. Yes, the food is very good.
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).