Collections — Off the edge of the map

Places That Don't Exist

Every map needs its sea monsters. These are the pins that aren't really pins — other planets, the afterlife, and the made-up — dropped wherever the show's imagination took them.

12 places in this collection

1. 1
   Mars

   It was built because they knew that there were indentations on Mars and they wanted to establish whether or not they were made by Martians.

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2. 2
   Venus

   The highest mountain on Venus is called Maxwell Montes, named after a male physicist.

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3. 3
   Jupiter

   Jupiter famously in Florida.

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4. 4
   Mercury

   There's only one place in earth that I've found, which is called Earth.

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5. 5
   ArmageddonPalestine

   NASA unofficially show people who are being recruited the movie Armageddon, and the job is to spot as many inaccuracies as possible.

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6. 6
   MoonNorway

   Can we jump over the moon.

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7. 7
   Babyland General HospitalUnited States

   In 1978 he opened up Babyland General Hospital, and you could go there as a punter, and they held live births at the hospital.

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   PikachuJapan

   She decided to go dressed as a giant Pikachu.

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   HyperionUnited States

   The tree is called Hyperion, it's a coast redwood in California and it's 116 meters tall, which is sort of significantly higher than the Statue of Liberty.

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10. 10
    PlutoUnited States

    If they start working, they'll slam them into Pluto, won't they?

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11. 11
    Nakatomi PlazaUnited States

    He wrote it at the Nakatomi Plaza building.

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12. 12
    Center of the EarthGreece

    It's actually the glacier that's mentioned in Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne — that's the one they go through.

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