Randomized locations:
(Please note: all of these are references to something. Many of the somethings are things we do not have pages for. Some of the somethings relate to a specific someone. Some are very general. Some are Real Life somethings or someones. Pothole if you want to, or add the reference in parentheses after the location.)
(Please also note that apparently the list is best numbered rather than bulleted.)
- 1000 feet up. ...900. ...800.
- 10 Downing Street [official residence of the United Kingdom Prime Minister]
- 1965 [In the utopian otherworld of Zot!, it was eternally 1965]
- the 20th Century On Board The Twentieth Century, a Broadway musical.
- Abbey of Thelema ["anti-monastery" in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel/spiritual centre founded by Aleister Crowley]
- aboard the Heart of Gold
- ACME Products Testing
- Alice's Restaurant
- Alpha Centauri [real life star system]
- Another Castle
- Area 51
- Arkham, Massachusetts
- asleep in a Tomb World
- Atlantis
- the Axiom
- the back of the bomb. YAAAAAAHOOOOOOOO!
- the ballet Broadway musical A Chorus Line; the song "At the Ballet"
- the Barricade
- the Bastille [real life place in France]
- the Batcave
- Bates Motel [original ID was on the right track; corrected to point to the intended actual reference]
- the Bazaar on Deva
- behind blue eyes
- behind the Fourth Wall
- behind the green door [1956 Jim Lowe song]
- being chased by a Purple People Eater [classic song "The Purple People Eater"]
- the belly of the beast Anthrax; also a 1981 book by Jack Abbot.
- the Bermuda Triangle [where things are known to disappear]
- Beverly Hills [real life place in California]
- Beyond Thunderdome
- the Bradbury Building [Los Angeles edifice frequently used for location shooting for films, notably Blade Runner]
- breakfasting at Tiffany's
- the bridge of the Event Horizon Liberate tutame ex infernis. [Protection payments from the Hells]
- Callahan's Place
- the Canyon of the Crescent Moon
- the car: Meme: "Jesus Christ, it's a lion, get in the car!"
- Castle Rock, ME
- CBGB's [massive music/film/media venue]
- the Center Of The Universe, Tokyo
- the Chamber of Secrets
- chasing the Southern Cross [Crosby, Stills and Nash song "Southern Cross"]
- chasing windmills in my mind: also 1960's song "The Windmills of Your Mind" written by Michel Legrand, performed by numerous artists, chiefly Noel Harrison and Dusty Springfield
- the Collective Unconscious
- CHAOS HEADQUARTERS
- Chez Lui [French for "at home"]
- The Corner Pocket
- Cowboy Feng's Bar and Grille
- Crosstime Saloon
- Cybertron
- the Dagobah System
- the Damocles Gulf
- the dancefloor, doing the Tennessee Waltz [classic song, "Tennessee Waltz"]
- the dark, about to be eaten by a grue
- darkest Commorragh
- the Department of Mysteries
- the depths of Moria
- a desert, on a horse with no name
- Detention block AA-23
- the director's chair
- Disneyland ["the most magical place on earth"]
- down at the crossroads
- down at the Sunset Grill [Don Henley song "Sunset Grill"]
- down by the bayou
- down in Kokomo
- down in the boondocks [song by Billy Joe Royal]
- down the Seven Bridges Road [Steve Young song made famous by the Eagles]
- down the up staircase [inversion of Up the Down Staircase?]
- Dunsinane Wood
- eating pomegranates with Persephone
- El Dorado [mythical place of gold]
- the Elephant of the Bastille [old monument in Paris, mentioned in Les Misérables]
- the Epic, in the Rue St. Denis
- Eavesdown Docks, Persephone
- ebriated [reference to blackcat and possibly the other COBbies (see here)]
- Equestria
- the Eye of Terror
- Fair Verona
- Final Destination [possibly the stage from the Super Smash Bros. series]
- on the flipside
- Forks, Washington
- the Fortress Of Solitude
- the garden [Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock"]
- the gates of Hell [after a ride in a handbasket]
- the Good Ship Lollipop
- the Great Pacific Garbage Patch [large patch of litter in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, theorized to be permanently polluted]
- Green Gables, PEI
- Greystone Mansion [Beverly Hills mansion frequently used for location shooting for various films]
- the gym
- halfway up the Big Rock Candy Mountain [folk song]
- the halls of Ulthwe
- Hatfield House [English stately home frequently used for location shooting for film and television]
- having dinner with Hannibal. Oh good, fava beans!
- Hernando's Hideaway
- Hickey Brothers [a cigar and hookah lounge]
- the high dive
- Hotel California
- the hot springs
- The House on the Rocks; The House On The Rock is also a tourist destination near Spring Green, in central Wisconsin
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Hunting the Most Dangerous Game
- Idyll, in the Rue Plumet
- in a box with a fox
- in Absent People
- in a cruel, crazy, beautiful world [album by Johnny Clegg/Savuka]
- in a little red corvette
- in da club
- in Edit Banned
- in MacArthur Park, in the rain, with a cake ["MacArthur Park", a song written by Jimmy Webb]
- in my beautiful balloon ["Up, Up and Away", another song written by Jimmy Webb]
- inside a Pokeball
- inside Mr. Wonka's TV
- inside the Kit Kat Club
- inside the magic lamp [or more generally: genies. Genies everywhere]
- Inside the Snarl
- the Internet
- the Intestines of The Leviathan
- the island of Dr. Moreau
- the island of Pianosa [also a real island in Italy]
- Jake's Place: location of Spider Robinson's sequels/continuations of the Callahans Crosstime Salloon stories.
- Karakura Town
- Krakatoa, East of Java
- Lahaina [place in Hawai'i]; also a song by Loggins And Messina
- a land far, far away [standard fairytale opener]
- the land of Oz
- Las Vegas Crime Lab
- LARP'ing shimaspawn
- Leaf Village
- the left turn at Albequerque
- the Library of Alexandria [real life ancient place]
- Lonely Mountain
- ...look up: opening of children's TV show, The Friendly Giant
- lost in time and space
- the Love Shack
- LV-426
- Maggie's Farm
- the Magic Bus
- the Magic School Bus
- Margaritaville, wasting away
- the Marianas Trench [in the Pacific Ocean, contains the deepest point of any ocean on earth]
- The Matrix
- a maze of twisty passages, all alike
- [[v the middle of the WAAAAGH]]
- the Midnight Meat Train
- the Mile High State [Colorado]
- the Ministry of Magic
- Miskatonic University
- Montego Bay [Jamaican city]; also a song by Bobby "Blue" Bland
- Monument Valley [valley in Utah used for location shooting for dozens of westerns]
- Moon River [old song]
- Mordor
- near the Gazebo
- Neverland
- nowhere
- the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York
- on board Naglfar [the Ship of Fingernails, ew]
- onboard the "Enterprise"
- in a bathtub, with a horse [a situation prohibited by an obscure law in the American state of South Carolina]
- on the Ark
- on the dock of the bay ["(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding]
- on the front lines of the Sabbat Worlds Crusade
- on the Orient Express
- on top of spaghetti [reference to an old song]
- Outer Heaven
- out flying on wax wings
- out walking the dogs
- the Oval Office
- the Paris Hilton
- perched on a rooftop
- petting kitties
- Peyton Place
- a pineapple under the sea
- The Pit, making the climb. Deshi basara!
- Platform 9-3/4
- Pompeii, 1934 years ago [in other words, just before everyone dies]
- Pooh Corner
- the pool hall racking up
- posing for Pickman
- Pripyat, Ukraine [hometown of the workforce of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, evacuated following 1986 meltdown]
- Purgatory, with Jesus, Jesus, and little Jesus.
- Quality Cafe [Los Angeles diner now used exclusively as a filming location]
- Radiant Gardens
- [REDACTED]
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- Rick's Café Américain
- riding with Bobby McGee [Kris Kristofferson-penned song "Me and Bobby McGee", made famous by Janis Joplin]
- right behind you
- a rocket to the Moon [1902 film A Trip to the Moon?]
- Rocky Top, Tennessee [song "Rocky Top" by the Osborne Brothers]
- Room 101
- the Ruins of Tolaria
- Russia, with love
- Saint Mary Mead
- Salem, MA [also the location of other witch-hunt works — 'tis a real place]
- the second star to the right
- a secret base inside Mt. Rushmore [mountain/monument in South Dakota often hosting secret government bases in fiction]
- the secret headquarters behind the dry cleaners; Intended to be the location of the secret location of Special Unit Two; was not entirely correct for either of these. The location in Man from Uncle was under DelTorio's Tailor shop, Special Unit 2's was under a Chinese laundry.
- Serenity
- The Shades, Ankh-Morpork
- Shadow Moses Island
- Shambala [the classic song of the same name, though it also is the name of various real life concepts]
- Shangri-La
- Ship of Fools
- the Sistine Chapel, preparing for Conclave
- the Sliding Scale War
- snowed in [yes, in March, stupid crazy weather this year]
- Stepford, Connecticut
- Strolling across Abbey Road
- the superunknown
- a surfin' safari
- the table eating green eggs and ham
- taking Fenrir for walkies
- the TARDIS
- a tendril of a Hive Fleet
- Theory — and everything works here!; also a reference to Tropers/Madrugada's first sig line.
- Third Earth [probably Thunder Cats reference]
- Through the Looking Glass
- Thule [classical literary term for far northern Europe]
- the Titanic (1997) [also, the historical ship]
- Tony Stark's hot tub
- touring with Dingos Ate My Baby
- traffic on the 405 [I-405 outside Seattle]
- Transsexual, Transylvania
- Treasure Planet
- Trivia
- U.N.C.L.E.
- under a Blood Red Sky [title of a live U2 mini-LP]
- under Milkwood
- underneath your space bar...with a headache
- under the bed [where monsters and dust bunnies lurk]
- under the Boardwalk [another song by the Drifters]
- under the sea
- under the dryer, searching for socks
- an undisclosed location: Real Life — where top US politicos are to be taken in case of a national Emergency or attack.
- up on the roof [song by the Drifters written by Carole King]
- Up the Down Staircase [title of a novel by Bel Kaufman, filmed in 1967]
- Vasquez Rocks
- a VHS tape [the primary video storage medium before DVDs]
- the War Room
- the way to Saint Ives [references a nursery rhyme]
- wearing a raspberry beret
- the Well of Souls
- where there be Tygers
- where the streets have no name
- the White Cliffs of Dover, watching birds
- The White Hart
- the White Tower
- with a fox in a box
- with a girl, a gold watch, and everything [a book by John D. Macdonald]
- with Hades
- with Lola at the Copacabana
- with the sweet cream icing flowing dowwwwwwwwwwwwn [another reference to the Jimmy Webb song "MacArthur Park"]
- Woodstock [a famous outdoor concert festival in the 1960s]
- a wretched hive of scum and villainy
- Xanadu [also Charles Foster Kane's mansion and the site of Kubla Khan's decreed stately pleasure dome]
- Yasgur's Farm [location of Woodstock]
- your AC vent
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