World locations


 * This article is about places seen, mentioned or featured within the Buffyverse. For real-life filming locations, see Buffy the Vampire Slayer filming locations.

See a temporarily incomplete map of all these locations here.

Belize

 * Riley Finn rejoined the military for a mission in the rainforest.
 * Home of Manjet until he came to Los Angeles when the Ra-Tet was eliminated.

Brazil

 * Drusilla left Spike for a Chaos Demon in 1998.

Rio De Janeiro

 * Willow Rosenberg and Kennedy spent a lot of time after the destruction of Sunnydale.

Sao Paulo

 * Home of Willow Rosenberg and Kennedy while searching for recently activated Slayers.

Easter Island

 * Location of a Hellmouth.
 * Ultimate settlement of the insectoid bug demons.

Beijing

 * Location of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.

Shanghai

 * Home of Potential Slayer Chao-Ahn.

Prague

 * Drusilla was tortured by a human inquisitor and Spike nearly dusted by an angry mob in 1997. Records claimed that Drusilla was killed during these events.

Marseilles

 * Daniel Holtz chased Angelus, Darla, James, and Elisabeth in 1767.

Rouen

 * Location of the Watchers Academy until it moved to Hampshire, England.

Germany

 * Home of Frederick and Hans Gruenstahler.

Berlin

 * Location of a branch of Wolfram & Hart.
 * Location of Hitler's bunker, which was temporarily used by Faith Lehane and Rupert Giles while in hiding.

Frankfurt

 * A Potential Slayer was hunted down and killed by Bringers in 2002.

Dublin

 * Angelus killed Daniel in 1838.

Galway

 * Birthplace of Liam in 1727.
 * Home of Liam and his family, before being sired by Darla in 1753.

Cortona

 * Home of Moloch the Corruptor, before being trapped inside a tome created by an order of monks in 1418.

Rome

 * Location of a branch of Wolfram & Hart.
 * Location of a cell of Slayers.

Jamaica

 * Home of Kendra and Sam Zabuto.

Japan

 * Location of a cell of Slayers.

Tokyo

 * Location of a battle between Buffy Summers's Slayer army and Japanese vampires (Toru, Raidon, Kumiko, etc.).

Mexico

 * Cordelia Chase and Groosalugg took a vacation in 2002.
 * Jonathan Levinson and Andrew Wells ran away from Dark Willow in 2002.

Ciudad Juárez

 * Angel and Boone fought for three and a half hours over a senorita in the 1920s.

Puerto Peñasco

 * Location of the Las Palmas resort where Cordelia Chase and her family spent the summer of 1998.

Lake Taupo

 * Home to one of two entrances to the Deeper Well.

Peru

 * Location of the Crown of Coils.

Borşa

 * Home of the Clan Kalderash who cursed Angelus with his soul.

Singapore

 * Location of a branch of Wolfram & Hart.

Istanbul

 * A Potential Slayer was hunted down and killed by Bringers in 2002.

Bath

 * Rupert Giles kept a flat here.

Cotswolds

 * Location of the Deeper Well.
 * Location of the Watchers Retreat.

Devon

 * Location of the Devon Coven.

Guildford

 * Location where the servant of Eyghon possessing Rupert Giles' body lived following the end of magic.

Hampshire

 * Location of the Watchers Academy.

London

 * Location of the Watchers Council headquarters until it was destroyed by Caleb.
 * Darla brought Angel here to meet The Master in 1760.
 * Home of Drusilla and her family, before being sired by Angel in 1860.
 * Home of William Pratt and his mother, Anne Pratt, before being sired by Drusilla in 1880.
 * Angelus killed Margaret in 1883.
 * Potential Slayer Nora was killed here along with her Watcher, Robson in 2002.
 * Home of the Giles family for several generations, 20th and 21st centuries.
 * Rupert Giles kept a house here, which passed to Faith Lehane after his death, where it became home to Angel and Faith.
 * Original home of Ethan Rayne and Ripper's Crowd.

Westbury

 * Rupert Giles helped Willow Rosenberg overcome her dark side at his house.

York

 * Home of Daniel Holtz until Angelus and Darla killed his family in 1764.

Belfast

 * Birthplace of Roden.

Scotland

 * Home of Buffy Summers and her squad of Slayers in the early 21st century.
 * Home of the Slayer, Leah.

Los Angeles

 * Birthplace of Buffy Summers.
 * Location of Angel Investigations' base of operations.
 * Location of a branch of Wolfram & Hart.
 * In 2004, the city was sent to the hell, though memories of the event faded.
 * Location of a squad of Slayers following the Battle at the Hellmouth.

Monterey

 * Dingoes Ate My Baby played a gig.

Ojai

 * Home of the T'ish Magev.

San Francisco

 * Home of Robert Dowling.
 * Home of Buffy, Dawn, Xander, Willow, Andrew and Spike following the end of magic.

Stockton

 * Location of Northern California Women's Facility, where Faith Lehane was incarcerated.

Sunnydale

 * Location of a Hellmouth.
 * Home of the Slayer, Buffy Summers, from 1997 to 2003.
 * Location of a battle in 2003 between The First's army of Turok-Han and Buffy Summer's Slayer army. The Hellmouth collapsed, destroying the city in the process.

Miami

 * Home of Seth Anderson and his family before they moved to Akron.

Chicago

 * Home of Stewart Burns until 1914.
 * Home of Angel in the 1920s.
 * Home of Buffy Summers' aunt Arlene.

Muncie

 * Location of a branch of Wolfram & Hart.

Huxley

 * Birthplace of Riley Finn.

Boston

 * Birthplace of Faith Lehane.

Baton Rouge

 * Home of Seth Anderson and his family before they moved to Akron.

Las Vegas

 * See article
 * Location of the Tropicana casino.
 * Location of Hart, the casino and branch of Wolfram & Hart.

New York City

 * Home of Angel, mid-1940s.
 * Home of Violet and her team of Slayers following the Battle at the Hellmouth.
 * Home of Melaka Fray and her family.

Akron

 * Home of Merl until he moved back to Los Angeles.
 * Home of Seth Anderson and his family until they moved to Los Angeles.

Cleveland

 * Location of a Hellmouth
 * Location of a squad of Slayers, led by Robin Wood

Gills Rock

 * Location of Thorpe's Academy, where Gwen Raiden enrolled in 1985.