The comic book stories published by Marvel Comics since the 1940s have featured several noteworthy concepts besides its fictional characters, such as unique places and artifacts. There follows a list of those features.
Certain places feature prominently in the Marvel Universe, some real-life, others fictional and unique to the setting; fictional places may appear in conjunction with, or even within, real-world locales.
Many Marvel Comics stories are set in New York City, where the publishing company is based.
New York is the site of many places important to superheroes:
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: The 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 (Spider-Man) works as a photographer for J. Jonah Jameson.
Fisk Towers: A skyscraper owned by Kingpin Wilson Fisk, and base of operations for his criminal activities.
Hell's Kitchen: Home and protectorate of the Defenders (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist) and The Punisher.
Nelson and Murdock Law Offices: The law firm founded by Matt Murdock (Daredevil) 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.
Mutant Town/District X: A ghetto-like neighborhood of New York primarily populated by mutants. Since the Decimation, its mutant population has largely disappeared.
The Bowery: In Fantastic Four #4 (1962), the Fantastic Four's Human Torch discovers the 1940s-era character Namor in this Manhattan neighborhood of "human derelicts", where Namor had taken up residence after the onset of retrograde amnesia about his identity.
Wakandan embassy: The consulate/embassy of Black Panther's nation of Wakanda.
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