List of DC Universe locations


This page lists significant locations in the DC Universe, the shared universe setting of DC Comics.

Sites

Arrowcave

The Arrowcave is the former base of operations of the Green Arrow and Speedy.

Avernus Cemetery

Avernus Cemetery is a hidden burial ground in Central City for deceased members of the Rogues.

Batcave

The Batcave is the headquarters of Batman. It is located beneath Wayne Manor.

Big Belly Burger

Big Belly Burger is a fast food chain that was founded in the 1950s and later bought by LexCorp. It started out in the fictional location of Coast City, home of Hal Jordan. The restaurant was inspired by Bob's Big Boy.

Big Belly Burger in other media

  • Big Belly Burger appears in media set in the Arrowverse.
  • Big Belly Burger appears in Blue Beetle.
  • Big Belly Burger serves as inspiration for a food establishment at the DC Universe area of Six Flags.

    Burnside

Burnside is a borough of Gotham City that is connected to Gotham by the Burnside Bridge. It is home to The New 52 version of Batgirl and appears in Batman '89 as the birthplace of Drake Winston and Harvey Dent.

Casanova Club

The Casanova Club is a nightclub owned by Alex Logue in Newcastle, England. It was there that a demon was summoned and John Constantine failed to save a young girl named Astra Logue who was taken to Hell.

Crime Alley

Crime Alley is the most dangerous area of Gotham City, where Thomas and Martha Wayne were killed by Joe Chill during a mugging. It was previously known as Park Row before gaining its infamous reputation.

Daily Planet Building

The Daily Planet Building is the home office of the Daily Planet, Metropolis' main newspaper.

Danny the Street

Danny the Street is a sentient street and a member of the Doom Patrol.

Flash Museum

The Flash Museum is a memorial to the Flash. It is located in Central City.

Fortress of Solitude

The Fortress of Solitude is an Arctic fortress used by Superman as a secret base. It is located near the North Pole.

Hall of Doom

The Hall of Doom is the home base of the Legion of Doom.

Hall of Justice

The Hall of Justice is the one-time home base of the Justice League. A version of the Hall of Justice serves as the headquarters of the Justice League in the animated series Super Friends.

Hall of Justice in other media

  • The Hall of Justice appears in Justice League Unlimited.
  • The Hall of Justice appears in Young Justice. This version is a public tourist spot and decoy that hides the existence of the Watchtower.

    House of Mystery

The House of Mystery is an extradimensional structure presided over by Cain.

House of Secrets

The House of Secrets is an extradimensional structure presided over by Abel. A version of this is also the headquarters of the Secret Six.

Reichuss Mansion

The Reichuss Mansion is a mobile haunted house that served as the House of Secrets in the 1990s Vertigo series.

Iceberg Lounge

The Iceberg Lounge is a nightclub and base of operations for the Penguin. It is located in Gotham City.

Iceberg Lounge in other media

  • The Iceberg Lounge appears in the DC Animated Universe.
  • The Iceberg Lounge appears in Gotham.
  • The Iceberg Lounge appears in The Lego Batman Movie
  • The Iceberg Lounge appears in Batman: Caped Crusader.
  • The Iceberg Lounge appears in The Batman and its spin-off The Penguin.
  • The Iceberg Lounge appears in Batman: Arkham City.

    Justice Society Headquarters

The current version of the Justice Society Headquarters is built on the foundation of the former brownstone headquarters and museum. The former headquarters in Gotham City, the latter in Manhattan. Sometimes called Dodds Mansion.

Justice Society Headquarters in other media

The Justice Society Headquarters appears in the Smallville episode "Absolute Justice".

LexCorp Towers Complex

The LexCorp Towers complex is the former headquarters of Lex Luthor. It is located in Metropolis.

Lux

Lux is the bar/nightclub based in Los Angeles owned by Lucifer Morningstar and his mistress Mazikeen.

Netherworld

The Netherworld is a fictional area of the city of Chicago.

Oblivion Bar

The Oblivion Bar is an extradimensional bar used as a gathering place/hangout for magic users, as well as the headquarters for the Shadowpact.

Project Cadmus

Project Cadmus is an experimental genetics lab. It is located in Metropolis.
The Young Justice animated series has it located in Washington, D.C.

Sanctum of Doctor Fate

The Sanctum of Doctor Fate is Doctor Fate's headquarters. It is located in Salem, Massachusetts.

Secret Sanctuary

The Secret Sanctuary is the original headquarters of the Justice League of America and briefly headquarters of the Doom Patrol. It is located in Happy Harbor, Rhode Island.

Sherwood Florist

Sherwood Florist is originally in Seattle and now in Star City, the business operated by Black Canary.

Suicide Slum

Suicide Slum is a particularly impoverished and crime-ridden neighborhood in Metropolis. Post-Crisis, Lex Luthor was born and raised here prior to building his fortune.

Titans Tower

Titans Tower is the headquarters of the Teen Titans, originally located in New York City and currently located in San Francisco.

Titans Tower in other media

  • The animated series Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go! have the Titans Tower located in the fictional Jump City.
  • Titans Tower is featured in Titans.

    Underworld

The Underworld is a place in Metropolis's sewers which is rejected by society and where the Warworlders took control.

Valhalla Cemetery

Valhalla Cemetery is a burial ground located in Metropolis for superheroes who have died in the line of duty.

Wayne Manor

Wayne Manor is the ancestral home of Batman. It is located outside Gotham City.

Wayne Tower

Wayne Tower is the location of the main offices of Wayne Enterprises, located in downtown Gotham City.

Correctional facilities

Arkham Asylum

Arkham Asylum is an asylum in Gotham City that houses criminally insane convicts.

Belle Reve

Belle Reve is a high security metahuman prison located in St. Roch, Louisiana and the headquarters of the Suicide Squad.
Belle Reve in other media
  • In Smallville, Belle Reve Sanitarium is a prison for "meteor freaks" and the mentally ill located near Kansas.
  • Belle Reve Special Security Barracks appears in the DC Extended Universe, as the location where Lex Luthor was sent at the end of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and in Suicide Squad where it is revealed to be a black site where the Suicide Squad is recruited. In The Suicide Squad the location has been renamed Belle Reve Correctional Center, and is implied to be under the authority of both A.R.G.U.S and the US Department of Corrections.
  • Belle Reve appears in Creature Commandos.

    Blackgate Penitentiary

Blackgate Penitentiary is a prison in Gotham City that houses non-metahuman criminals, such as Rupert Thorne, Carmine Falcone, the Penguin, Arnold Wesker / Ventriloquist, Arthur Brown / Cluemaster and Victor Zsasz.
Blackgate Penitentiary in other media
  • Blackgate Penitentiary appears in Gotham.
  • Blackgate Penitentiary appears in Batwoman.
  • Blackgate Penitentiary appears in The Penguin.
  • Blackgate Penitentiary appears in The Dark Knight Rises.
  • Blackgate Penitentiary appears in the Batman: Arkham series.

    Gotham State Penitentiary

Gotham State Penitentiary is a prison located in the Sommerset neighborhood, near Arkham Asylum.
Gotham State Penitentiary in other media
Gotham State Penitentiary appears in Batman.

Iron Heights Penitentiary

Iron Heights Penitentiary is a high security prison devised for many of the foes of the Flash. It is located near Keystone City.
Iron Heights Penitentiary in other media
  • Iron Heights Penitentiary appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
  • Iron Heights Penitentiary appears in The Flash.

    Peña Duro

Peña Duro, also called Hard Rock in English, is the former prison of the villain Bane that is located in Santa Prisca. He served a life sentence there as a child because of the actions committed by his elusive father King Snake.

Rock Falls Penitentiary

Rock Falls Penitentiary is a prison in Rock Falls, Iowa, that originates from the film Shazam!. It is incorporated into subsequent comics as a prison that had a section built to house the magic-based enemies of the Shazam Family.

Ravenscar Secure Facility

Ravenscar Secure Facility is a mental asylum in Yorkshire where John Constantine was committed after the Newcastle Incident.

Slabside Island

Slabside Island, also called the Slab and Slabside Penitentiary, is a high security metahuman prison. Originally in New Jersey, it was later transported to Antarctica after the Joker's "Last Laugh" riot. Shilo Norman was the original warden of Slabside Penitentiary.
Slabside Island in other media
Stryker's Island is a prominent penitentiary in Metropolis specifically New Troy's West River.