Features of the Marvel Universe

Places

Earth

New York City

Superhero sites

• Avengers Mansion: Currently in ruin, but long the home of the Avengers.
• Avengers Tower: Formerly Stark Tower, the current headquarters of the Avengers.
• Alias Investigations: A private investigations firm founded and owned by Jessica Jones.
• Baxter Building and Four Freedoms Plaza: The bases of the Fantastic Four.
• Daily Bugle: A newspaper building where Peter Parker, among others, work.
• District X: A ghetto-like neighborhood of New York primarily populated by mutants. Since the Decimation, its mutant population has largely disappeared.
• Fisk Towers: A skyscraper owned by the Kingpin, and base of operations for his criminal activities.
• Hell's Kitchen: Home and protectorate of the Defenders, and the Punisher.
• Nelson and Murdock Law Offices: The law firm founded by Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson.
• Sanctum Sanctorum: The abode of Doctor Strange located in Greenwich Village.
• Oscorp Tower: A skyscraper owned by Norman Osborn. Now the headquarters for Alchemax.
• The Bowery: In Fantastic Four No. 4, the Human Torch discovers the Namor in this Manhattan neighborhood of "human derelicts", where Namor had taken up residence after sustaining amnesia.
• Wakandan embassy: The consulate/embassy of Black Panther's nation of Wakanda.

  Companies

• Alchemax: A company owned by Tyler Stone.
• Cross Technological Enterprises: A multinational industrial company run by Darren Cross. It is a rival of Stark Industries.
• Damage Control: A construction company that specializes in repairing the property damaged by super-powered individuals.
• Fisk Industries: A legitimate business on the surface founded and owned by Wilson Fisk.
• Frost International: A multi billion-dollar electronics conglomerate run by Emma Frost.
• Hammer Industries: A company founded and owned by Justin Hammer.
• Horizon Labs: A technological company headed by Max Modell.
• Midas Foundation: A company that was founded by Doctor Midas.
• Oscorp: A company founded and formerly owned by Norman Osborn.
• Parker Industries: A company founded and owned by Peter Parker.
• Pym Technologies: A biochemical company founded by Hank Pym.
• : A conglomerate corporation and one of the largest fuel companies in the world.
• Stark Industries: A company founded and owned by Isaac Stark Sr. It is currently owned by Tony Stark.
• Trask Industries: A weapons and technology company founded and owned by Bolivar Trask.
• Von Doom Industries: An international megacorporation founded by Victor von Doom, who is the CEO.

  Universities

• Columbia University: A real university whose fictional alumni include Matt Murdock, Elektra, and Reed Richards. It is featured in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man films.
• Empire State University : A university whose alumni include Peter Parker, Harry Osborn, Gwen Stacy, Emma Frost, and Johnny Storm. Doreen Green is currently enrolled in its computer science undergraduate program.
• Sotomayor University: A fictional university whose students include America Chavez and David Alleyne. The university is named after Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

  Regions and countries

• Atlantis: A small continent with many human settlements. Over 20,000 years ago, an event called the "Great Cataclysm" caused it to be submerged into the sea.
• Attilan : Home of the Inhumans. Originally an island in the Atlantic Ocean, it has moved several times, including to the Andes, the Himalayas, the Moon, and Hala, the homeworld of the Kree. Attilan is destroyed in Infinity, with its remains becoming a sovereign state, New Attilan, ruled by Medusa.
• * Attilan in other media
• ** Attilan appears in The New Fantastic Four episode "Medusa and the Inhumans". This city is ruled only by Medusa.
• ** Attilan appears in the Fantastic Four three-part episode "Inhumans Saga".
• ** Attilan appears in the Disney XD Marvel series Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., Ultimate Spider-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Avengers Assemble.
• ** Attilan appears in Marvel Future Avengers.
• ** Attilan appears in Inhumans.
• Bagalia: A sovereign island nation in an undisclosed location. It was founded by the Shadow Council and is ruled by criminals.
• Chronopolis: The city-state headquarters of Kang the Conqueror, located on the outskirts of the timeless dimension Limbo. It also appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2.
• Costa Verde: A country in Central America where Silverclaw was born.
• Demonica: An island north of Hawaii created by Doctor Demonicus; it eventually sinks back into the Pacific.
• Deviant Lemuria: The undersea home of the Deviants located at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
• Dynamo City: An interstellar city and space port for dynamism controlled by a municipal government.
• Genosha: An island nation off the coast of Africa, north of Madagascar, where mutants were once enslaved.
• Hyboria: The main continent of the Hyborian Age where Conan the Barbarian lived.
• Imaya: A country in North Africa.
• Kamar-Taj: A small kingdom in the Himalayas.
• Krakoa: A living island in the South Pacific.
• ': A mystical city that only appears periodically on the earthly plane. It is closely associated with Iron Fist. K'un-Lun is based on the mythological mountain Kunlun.
• Latveria: A country in Europe ruled by Doctor Doom.
• Lemuria: A small continent and group of islands in the Pacific Ocean 21,000 years ago, which was ruled by the Deviants. It was sunk underwater during a battle with Atlantis.
• Madripoor: A city modeled after Singapore, to which Wolverine has connections.
• Monster Isle: An island where kaiju-style monsters rule.
• Muir Island: An island off the northwest coast of Scotland, containing Moira MacTaggert's mutant research lab.
• Nova Roma: An ancient Rome-like city in Brazil where Magma was born.
• Olympia: Mountain city of the Eternals, located on Mount Olympus in Greece.
• Providence: An artificial island made of parts from Cable's old space station, Graymalkin, located in the South Pacific Ocean, southwest of Hawaii. Providence was intended to be a place where the best minds on Earth could gather, live, and find new ways of doing everything in hopes of giving the world a peaceful future. Cable later destroys Providence to keep the future evidence of the Messiah Child's birth away from the Marauders.
• Savage Land: A place with a tropical climate, prehistoric animals, and strange tribes located in the heart of Antarctica.
• Slorenia: An eastern Slavic nation.
• Sokovia: An Eastern European nation that was created for the Marvel Cinematic Universe before being integrated into the comics. In the MCU, Helmut Zemo, Wanda Maximoff, and Pietro Maximoff are depicted as Sokovian.
• Subterranea: A vast underground region. It is the home of the Mole Man, Tyrannus, and various underground creatures who serve them.
• Symkaria: A country in Europe adjoining Latveria and home of Silver Sable.
• ': A country in Balkans. The birthplace of Spider-Woman, Quicksilver, and the Scarlet Witch. The men of the Russoff line were afflicted with the curse of lycanthropy in Transia. It is the base of operations for the High Evolutionary, and source of the "radioactive clay" used by the Puppet Master. One location is , a mountain to which Chthon was bound.
• Vorozheika: A country to the northeast of Chechnya. It is formerly part of the USSR and now ruled by the Eternal Druig.
• Wakanda: An African nation ruled by T'Challa, the current Black Panther.

  Prisons

• Alcatraz is a real-life island prison in San Francisco Bay. In the Marvel universe, it held superhuman criminals in special section in the 1940s. In Dark Reign, Alcatraz is occupied by H.A.M.M.E.R. and used as a detention center for mutants.
• ' is a nuclear testing facility in New Mexico. It held the Armageddon Man and perhaps others in suspended animation. It first appeared in X-Men No. 12.
• The Cage is a prison that uses a special force field to depower inmates based on a remote island in international waters. The Cage was home to four prison gangs: a group of Maggia loyalists, the Skulls, the Brothers, and the Cruisers. The Cage was later shut down and replaced by the Raft.
• ' is a British prison previously known simply as 'Crossmoor'. Deadpool and Juggernaut were its known inmates.
• The Cube is a prison for super-powered beings, such as the Hulk, the Abomination, Absorbing Man and the Leader. The prison was created by writer Grant Morrison and artist J. G. Jones in Marvel Boy vol. 2 No. 6. Its location is undisclosed and only high-ranking S.H.I.E.L.D. agents know of its existence. It has a special program where prisoners are brainwashed to become obedient soldiers. In Civil War: Young Avengers & Runaways #4, Marvel Boy had taken control of the entire facility. In Dark Reign, the Cube served as the Thunderbolts' base of operations.
• *Cube in other media
• **The Cube appears in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. This version is a S.H.I.E.L.D. prison for gamma-powered supervillains, including the Leader, the Abomination, Absorbing Man, the U-Foes, the Wrecking Crew, Bi-Beast, Radioactive Man, Madman and Zzzax.
• The ' is a Canadian maximum security prison.
• *Ice Box in other media
• **The Ice Box appears in Deadpool 2, where it houses mutant fugitives, such as Deadpool, Russell Collins, Black Tom Cassidy and Juggernaut.
• ' inmates in the facility are shrunk down using Pym particles for cheaper storage and easier control. It is also known as the "Ant Hill" due to operators using versions of the Ant-Man helmet to influence ants to act as security with Roberto Dawber as the warden.
• *Lang Memorial Penitentiary in other media
• **The Big House appears in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. This version was developed by Hank Pym and is housed in the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier while maintained by benign Ultron sentries. In the episode "Breakout", a technological fault causes the Big House to enlarge, damaging the Helicarrier and allowing the inmates to escape.
• ' is a government facility that researches alternative and unusual forms of energy. It is later used as a prison for individuals with energy-based powers.
• *Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. in other media
• ** Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. appears in Iron Man: Armored Adventures. This version is an energy research facility led by Russian scientist Anton Harchov and located in New York City that is later absorbed into Stark International under Obadiah Stane.
• ** Project Pegasus appears in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• The Raft is a prison facility for superhuman criminals. Created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist David Finch, it first appeared in New Avengers No. 1 as the "Maximum-Maximum Security" wing of Ryker's Island.
• *Raft in other media
• ** The Raft appears in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
• ** The Raft appears in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• ** In a deleted scene from Deadpool, Ajax is escorted by boat to "The Raft Prison".
• ** The Raft appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes.
• ** The Raft appears in Spider-Man.
• ** The Raft appears in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order.
• ** The Raft makes a minor appearance in Spider-Man 2.
• Ravencroft is a maximum-security asylum, primarily appearing in association with Spider-Man. The institute was first mentioned in Web of Spider-Man No. 112, written by Terry Kavanagh. The institute officially opens in Web of Spider-Man Annual No. 10, written by Terry Kavanagh, with art by Jerry Bingham. The place later grew to one of the leading maximum-security facilities in the country specializing in the treatment of superhuman criminals. The Ruins of Ravencroft storyline reveals that Ravencroft was a site for superhuman experiments during the 20th century.
• *Ravencroft in other media
• ** Ravencroft appears in Spider-Man: The Animated Series.
• ** Ravencroft appears in The Spectacular Spider-Man.
• ** Ravencroft appears in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
• ** Ravencroft appears in Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
• ' is the Marvel Universe counterpart to the real-world Rikers Island, New York City's largest jail facility. In The Amazing Spider-Man, Ryker's Island was renamed the Cellar when it was bought and improved by Empire Unlimited.
• *Ryker's Island in other media
• ** Ryker's Island appears in Spider-Man: The Animated Series.
• ** Ryker's Island appears in The Spectacular Spider-Man.
• ** Ryker's Island appears in the Ultimate Spider-Man episode "Return of the Sinister Six".
• ** Ryker's Island appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series Daredevil and Luke Cage.
• is where the wrongly convicted Carl Lucas agreed to become a test subject for Noah Burstein. These experiments lead to him gaining super powers and changed his name to Luke Cage. The prison also appears in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• The Vault is a defunct prison facility for super-human criminals. It first appeared in The Avengers Annual No. 15 and prominently appeared in the 1990 event "Acts of Vengeance", where it was run by Truman Marsh. It was destroyed in Heroes for Hire No. 1.
• *Vault in other media
• ** The Vault appears in the Iron Man episode "The Armor Wars".
• ** The Vault appears in Fantastic Four.
• ** The Vault appears in The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction.
• ** The Vault appears in the Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes episode "Strings".
• ** The Vault appears in The Spectacular Spider-Man episode "Opening Night".
• ** The Vault appears in The Super Hero Squad Show.
• ** The Vault appears in Marvel Super Hero Squad.
• ** The Vault appears in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. This version of the prison specializes in holding technological-based super-criminals and their technology. In the episode "Breakout", the Vault undergoes a technological fault that allows all of its prisoners to escape. In response, Iron Man uses J.A.R.V.I.S. to activate the prison's self-destruct sequence.
• ** The Vault appears in Avengers Assemble.
• ** The Vault appears in Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H..
• ** The Vault appears in Thunderbolts*.