List of fictional buildings
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This is a selective list of buildings that are highly significant in their respective fictional works, and not merely a setting. Fictional schools are listed separately.
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Churches, cathedrals, and abbeys
- The unnamed abbey in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.
- Northanger Abbey in Jane Austen's novel of the same name.
- Oublie Cathedral from Eternal Darkness, formerly a small church acts as the fictional setting for the assassination of Charlemagne the Franc. It is also the hiding place of one of the Ancients' essences.
Hotels, motels, and lodges
- The Atlantic Hotel, in F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh
- The Bates Motel, in Psycho
- The Enchanted Hunters, in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
- The Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's The Shining.
- The Possum Lodge in the fictional town of Possum Lake, Canada, in The Red Green Show.
- The Inn of the Prancing Pony, an inn in the town of Bree in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
Houses, mansions, and castles
- The Avengers Mansion, headquarters of Marvel Comics' supergroup The Avengers
- Bag End, Bilbo Baggins', later Frodo Baggins' and finally Samwise Gamgee and family's home, in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
- Bowser's Keep or Bowser's Castle, from various Super Mario games.
- The Castle in Franz Kafka's The Castle.
- Chetaux Malraux, is the home of the Family Malraux on the planet Vjun, in the Star Wars book, Yoda: Dark Rendevouz
- The Cottage, government safehouse for the Blackwood Project in the first season of War of the Worlds
- Gormenghast, the castle that forms the main setting of the books Titus Groan and Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake.
- Green Gables, in Anne of Green Gables.
- Hill House in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.
- Hyrule Castle, located either in the center or northern area of Hyrule in the Legend of Zelda video game series.
- The House Absolute from the Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.
- The House on Haunted Hill in the horror films of the same name.
- The House of Usher, in Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.
- Lancre Castle in the Discworld novels Wyrd Sisters and Lords and Ladies.
- Manderley, the home of Max de Winter in Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca.
- Rose Cottage, from Road to Avonlea.
- Rose Red, an ensouled mansion in Stephen King's teleplay of the same name.
- Pemberley, the ancestral home of Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
- The Sanctum Sanctorum, home of Marvel Comics' Doctor Strange.
- Satis House, the ruined mansion and home of Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.
- The Serehfa Fastness, the immense castle in Iain M. Banks' "Feersum Endjinn" whose gigantic rooms are home to all Earth's remaining population.
- Southfork Ranch, from Dallas.
- Wayne Manor, home of Bruce Wayne in the Batman universe.
- The Roivas Mansion from Eternal Darkness. Supposedly located in Rhode Island it is the central location of the game.
See also List of fictional addresses
Office buildings, corporate headquarters, and other commercial buildings
See also: Skyscrapers in film.
- The Baxter Building, former headquarters of The Fantastic Four.
- The Eyrie Building, headquarters of Xanatos Enterprises, from Gargoyles.
- The Fountainhead ill-fated office building in the novel of the same name.
- The Four Freedoms Plaza, replacement building for the Baxter Building.
- Government Complex, Government building where Sal owns her flower stand. Megaman Battle Network
- The offices of Megadodo Publications on Ursa Minor Beta from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
- Mertin-Flemmer building, from Being John Malkovich. Built by a man named Captain Mertin, it contains a 7½th floor and a portal into the brain of John Malkovich.
- Nakatomi Plaza in Die Hard.
- The New Tower of Babel from Metropolis.
- Taggart Building, the headquarters of Taggart Transcontinental in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
- Tregoweth Brown Building, the cornerstone of which contained Michigan J. Frog, in One Froggy Evening.
Other
- Abelard Sanctuary, in Brotherhood of the Rose
- Arkham Asylum, the mental hospital in Gotham City
- Barad-dûr, Sauron's watch-tower in Mordor in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
- The Batcave, HQ for Batman.
- The Braun Llama Dome, hybrid tourist attraction in Sim City 2000.
- The Citadel from the Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.
- The Flugelheim Museum in Gotham City (an antithesis of the Guggenheim Museum).
- The Fortress of Solitude, where Superman spends some of his time.
- The Hall of Justice, in Super Friends.
- Hill Valley Courthouse, with famed clock tower, in the Back to the Future trilogy of films.
- Kingdom Hospital in the Stephen King and Richard Dooling scripted television series, 'Kingdom Hospital' and Dooling's tie-in book 'The Journals of Eleanor Druse'
- Matachin Tower in Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.
- The Citadel of Minas Tirith, a watch-tower within the city of Minas Tirith in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
- The buildings of the Ministries of Love, Truth, and Peace in London, Airstrip One, in the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- Many starbases in Star Trek (although other starbases are structures in orbit around planets rather than buildings on the ground).
- Starfleet Headquarters, a building or building complex in San Francisco, California, Earth, in Star Trek.
- Starfleet Research and Development, a building or building complex in Tokyo, Japan, Earth, in Star Trek.
- The Tangiers Casino in Las Vegas, used in Casino and later CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
- The Forbidden City in the Middle-East and the Temple of Mantorok in Cambodia from Eternal Darkness.
- The Hive from the movie adaption of Resident Evil is large maze-like research facility located a mile under the fictional urban centre of Raccoon City.