The forge of heroes and the graveyard of tyrants and empires.

A Hell House is a creepy, spooky, or otherwise sketch domicile where large numbers of people can easily vanish 

A Time Locked Town is a city or town or generally any location is that geared towards one specific time of year, almost always focused on a holiday. These locations are common in holiday and horror themed movies

The Castles Avalon are the defensive bastions of the Atlantic Federation, fortresses to break the backs souls of any who would trespass against them

Where does your character live? A house? Townhouse? Apartment? Trailer?

YAAAAWN

Prison isnt the end all of dealing with criminals, dissidents, and the unwanted

A world at the mercy of a mad Solar Deity

Another term for a clone production and storage facility

mass produced pre-fab structures were intended to allow military forces to rapidly 'castle' through hostile territory and quickly deploy defense in depth when needed. This was a counterpoint to large sprawling military bases.

Most were built during the Second Renaissance in response to the O2 Depletion Event

Part factory, part grocery store, part fast food joint

This is to be my model sub going forward here. Please take a little extra time in your comments. I especially want to hear the negatives.

The countryside of the Stolen World is littered with very unusual urban dwellings, here are 7.(fixed typo in summary, lol , bad start)

A praesidium is the Cosmic Era equivalent of the communes and bastions of the Great Awakening in Pre-Petrol America.

The Gold Standard

The Wastelands of the Cosmic Era

In the Cosmic Era, there is one thing that has grown with the advent of arcanotech and hypertech, the gap between the wealthy and destitute. While nations are building space stations and starting terraforming projects on other planets, there are large sections of planet Earth that are still post apoc era.

A companion piece to my 30 Pocket Dimensions

The cramped and tightly knit Palestra -- the University district of the City -- is a law unto itself. It is dominated by the great University, and by the thousands of students, scholars and hangers-on attached to the school. The University has no dormitories, and many of the buildings and businesses in the district have upper stories crammed with any who do not commute from other areas of the City.

Here are five locations which can add some spice to your city's university district.

This slum reveals the darker face of the City. Shanteytown is exposed to the elements and unprotected by wall or guard. A seedy mixture of driftwood shacks, impromptu shelters, lean-tos and camps thrown up on old ruins, and filled with the underclass and those with nowhere else to go, Shanteytown is for many the end of the line.

Large glass domes are popular in pulp science fiction, covering alien cities, protecting the last cities of man from a ruined and scorched earth, and providing sky lights for space stations and habitats.