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Fictional Places in Songs

Can you guess these fictional places that appear in the lyrics of well-known songs?
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First submittedOctober 7, 2015
Times taken29,611
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Clue
Place
You can check out anytime, but you can never leave
Hotel California
New Orleans house that's been the ruin of many a poor boy
House of the Rising Sun
Elton John said goodbye to this Oz thoroughfare
Yellow Brick Road
A little old place where we can get together. Tin roof, rusted.
Love Shack
Place on Lonely Street where Elvis dwelled
Heartbreak Hotel
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Paradise City
Donovan sang about this island that sank into the sea
Atlantis
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to …
Sesame Street
Where Fats Domino found his thrill
Blueberry Hill
Place to search for a lost shaker of salt
Margaritaville
Where Ringo would like to be, under the sea
Octopus's Garden
The Beach Boys got there fast and took it slow
Kokomo
Puff the Magic Dragon lived by the sea in a land called …
Honali
Town to keep me movin', keep me groovin' with some energy
Funky Town
Where Gollum stole Led Zeppelin's girl
Mordor
Wider than a mile, I'll be crossing you in style some day
Moon River
Where there's a lake of stew and of whiskey too
Big Rock Candy Mountain
You got trouble right here. Trouble that starts with "t" which rhymes with "p"
which stands for pool.
River City
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57 Comments
kalbahamut
+5
Level 79
Nov 30, 2015
hm... somehow I managed to misspell margarita...
DeusCaritasEst
+10
Level 54
Dec 1, 2015
Were you enjoying any of said drink whilst taking this, by chance?
RondoNo2
+1
Level 50
Mar 30, 2026
Kalbetterthanus doesn't drink. Drinking is for the weak.
Jackey52
+2
Level 62
Nov 30, 2015
Just to put this out there... There is definitely a heartbreak hotel. It's across the street from Elvis's house. I don't know if it counts as not being fictional because of that. Great quiz!
ImSoFrancis
+2
Level 23
Nov 30, 2015
I always thought that Puff lived in "a land called Harmony".

TIL

Kestrana
+3
Level 59
Nov 30, 2015
You don't need to remove it necessarily, but Kokomo is a real place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokomo
samiamco
+13
Level 68
Jan 21, 2020
Kokomo, Indiana is definitely not where The Beach Boys wanted to take ya :-)
Jacktheguy
+3
Level 93
Jul 7, 2020
Kokomo, Hawaii is probably better.

But apparently the Kokomo in the song is supposed to be in the Florida Keys.

weldin
+1
Level 48
Mar 30, 2026
Kokomo WAS an island in Jamaica. It's now called Sandals Cay.
Clarisse451
+3
Level 64
Nov 30, 2015
Technically it was a poor girl ruined by the House of the Rising Sun -- the Animals just changed the lyric for some reason or other when they made their cover.
communisteggplant
+1
Level 74
Jan 22, 2020
Probably because they were dudes and didn't want to do the folkie thing of just always using the original words. Dylan's version has "poor girl" in it.
RobNobody
+1
Level 80
Jul 7, 2020
You can't rightly blame The Animals for that. It was a folk song with a number of variations that had been published and recorded with both female and male lyrics numerous times decades before the Animals recorded it.
artemis05
+6
Level 75
Nov 30, 2015
There really is a house in New Orleans called The Rising Sun. It began as a brothel.
postwaste
+3
Level 88
Nov 30, 2015
Tin roof!
cranbeckh
+3
Level 69
Dec 3, 2015
Rusted!
eurocrem
+2
Level 41
Dec 1, 2015
What about Imagination land in Imagination song? :D
DeusCaritasEst
+2
Level 54
Dec 1, 2015
Um...I'm really confused about Gollum stealing anyone's girl. And the location still being Mordor. I mean, I could have guessed Mordor based on Gollum alone, but since it was in a real, contemporary song, I just figured the place had to be some crazy random thing that I also never would have thought of. Obviously, no, I don't listen to much Led Zeppelin. Explain, please. :)
dkuva
+6
Level 54
Dec 2, 2015
From the Zeppelin song "Ramble On" --

"Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear.

How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air.

T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair.

But Gollum, and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her, her, her....yeah. "

Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Jul 11, 2019
I think not realizing the books were around quite a long time before the movies made lotr mainstream tripped you up here.
HectorVortac
+2
Level 47
Apr 14, 2016
Many of these fictional places became real places.
Zooty
+1
Level 69
Nov 6, 2016
Typed Mordor as a joke, now I have to listen to that song
jajaco2017
+1
Level 56
Mar 3, 2017
kokomo is real. it is Curacao
Carry
+4
Level 63
Jan 21, 2020
They sing about a fictional place off the Florida Keys. There's no Kokomo there.
TheCrusher
+1
Level 70
Jul 7, 2020
@jajaco2017 So why isn't the song called Curaçao?
tylman9
+6
Level 72
Mar 8, 2017
No Electric Avenue?
IsleAuHaulte
+3
Level 92
Jan 21, 2020
Oh great, I was fine with the darkest depths of Mordor stuck in my head and now it's going to be

Boy!....

Boy!...

Down in the streets there is violence...

HectorVortac
+1
Level 47
Jul 8, 2020
Within a month of hearing this song for the first time I found Electric Avenue in Los Angeles. I chose to believe he was singing about this rather short street.
saintlyjim
+1
Level 44
Mar 29, 2026
It's referring to Electric Avenue in Brixton, London.
PotatoBoy
+4
Level 66
Jul 6, 2017
Two humble suggestions: Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Fascination Street
mf3
+2
Level 90
Jan 22, 2020
I believe the "Love Shack" was an actual place, really located where the song says it was outside of Athens, Ga., although it burned down before the song was written. However, David Bowie's Suffragette City doesn't actually exist, if you're looking for more such places.
ander217
+1
Level 74
Jan 26, 2020
As soon as I saw ___ Shack, I immediately typed Sugar before I read the clue. I know my age is showing but my brother played that Fireballs song all the time until I wanted to scream.
bebn123
+1
Level 61
Jul 7, 2020
Cool to see Ringo mentioned in this quiz, considered today's his birthday.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Jul 7, 2020
River does not start with t or rhyme with pool.
InterAlia
+1
Level 83
Jan 19, 2022
Which brings up a useful and underappreciated term: non sequitur.
Muncie
+2
Level 75
Nov 2, 2024
Trouble starts with T. T rhymes with P and that stands for pool.

You got trouble my friend, right here in River City, trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for pool.

Dimby
+3
Level 83
Mar 29, 2026
Sure I’m a billiards player. Always might proud to say I’m mighty proud to say it!
OvenBobat
+3
Level 65
Mar 29, 2026
I consider that the hours I spend with a cue in my hand are golden...
RondoNo2
+1
Level 50
Mar 30, 2026
Kalamityjane: how right you are, but how pointless your comment.
ThSneak
+5
Level 79
Jul 7, 2020
Moral of the story is that more people need to watch O Brother Where art Thou? One of my all time favorites.
mimikyu42
+1
Level 46
Mar 29, 2026
Coen Brothers are geniuses.
Yoshimano
+1
Level 66
Jul 7, 2020
Not an easy one. Thanks!
ander217
+2
Level 74
Jul 7, 2020
I remember singing a verse or two of Big Rock Candy Mountain in music class in elementary school, but they must have rewritten the lyrics for kids because there was nothing about cigarette trees, alcohol springs or lakes of gin in our version. The first time I heard Burl Ives sing the real one I was very surprised at the lyrics. It is definitely not a children's song.
joez
+1
Level 77
Jul 8, 2020
17/18. I got all but Sesame Street.
SweetDizaster63
+1
Level 59
Mar 16, 2026
Sesame street is the one that doesn't belong here. Such a good quiz with one silly clue and answer. What's next Fred Rogers in the ghetto?
RondoNo2
+1
Level 50
Mar 30, 2026
Why shouldn't it be here?
Cincinnatus
+1
Level 79
Mar 29, 2026
Don't lean on me man, cause you can't afford the ticket...
Allaboutme
+1
Level 54
Mar 29, 2026
California is real. I've been there. Also been to a Hotel California. And I've been to paradise - but I've never been to me.
nootathotep
+1
Level 32
Mar 29, 2026
no plastic beach :c
OvenBobat
+3
Level 65
Mar 29, 2026
Music Man reference!
mimikyu42
+2
Level 46
Mar 29, 2026
The only reason I got Big Rock Candy Mountain was because of O Brother Where Art Thou.
tapty
+3
Level 60
Mar 29, 2026
I only got 50% of them but I managed to get River City because I played in the orchestra for a Music Man performance when I was in high school :)
aolsuxthebigone
+2
Level 74
Mar 29, 2026
House of the Rising Sun is a real place.
KingEdwardIII
+3
Level 47
Mar 29, 2026
Music Man is such an underappreciated musical
xtremeyoylecake
+1
Level 53
Mar 30, 2026
It shouldn't have won over West Side Story though...
idontkn1
+1
Level 94
Mar 30, 2026
Just completely random but listen to the first 20 seconds of Smooth Operator by Sade' and then Kokomo. Not sure how they got away with that.
xtremeyoylecake
+1
Level 53
Mar 30, 2026
Music Man mentioned?

That brings me back...

weldin
+1
Level 48
Mar 30, 2026
Funky Town is sort of a real place, referring to NYC. The songwriter lived in Minneapolis at the time, and wanted to leave lol.
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