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Hinterlands
The Gorgonian Grotto is a fictional cave shaped like a cone featured in The Grim Grotto. The grotto is located below Anwhistle Aquatics, to which it is linked by vertical tunnels.
The name Gorgonian is an apparent reference to gorgons, deadly creatures of Greek mythology. This refers to the presence of the deadly Medusoid Mycelium in the grotto. Medusa was a Gorgon.
The Baudelaire children, accompanied by Fiona, visit the grotto because they believe that the sugar bowl may have been carried into it via its underwater entrance, after having been thrown into the Stricken Stream. They do not find the sugar bowl, however they do find several items washed up on a beach in the grotto which later become useful. While visiting the grotto, Sunny Baudelaire becomes infected by the Medusoid Mycelium.
Briny Beach
Lake Lachrymose is a very large lake, affected as it is by Hurricane Herman (a hurricane in the The Wide Window). One of the notable points of the lake is the leeches that inhabit its waters. If anyone goes into Lake Lachrymose within an hour after eating, the Lachrymose Leeches will smell the food and devour them. This is how Ike and possibly Josephine Anwhistle meet their end. There are various features around the lake, including Curdled Cave (which is for sale), a cliff which formerly held Josephine Anwhistle's house, beaches, and the Town of Lake Lachrymose.
The resort town is bustling during good weather, but in the bad weather, things are dead. The Anxious Clown restaurant is of particular note, which supposedly has a V.F.D. member disguised as a waiter saying, "I didn't realize this was a sad occasion." The food is horrible, some meals include the Extra Fun Family Appetizer (a bunch of things served up together and fried with a sauce), the Surprising Chicken Salad, and Cheer-up Cheeseburgers. Known customers include Mr. Poe and his sister, Eleanora (in The Unauthorized Autobiography), the Baudelaire orphans, Count Olaf (under the disguise of Captain Sham), Jacques Snicket (possibly), and Lemony Snicket, when he had to collect a secret message.
Another important place is Damocles Dock, where the Fickle Ferry docks. Captain Sham's Sailboat Rentals is located here. Other places are the Lavender Lighthouse, marking Curdled Cave's location, a clothing store called, Look! It Fits!, the Rancorous Rocks, and the Wicked Whirlpool, the last 3 of which are simply things mentioned, and don't play any importance to the story.
It is known that Captain Widdershins patrolled Lake Lachrymose in his submarine, the Queequeg.
Notably, the word "lachrymose" means "tearful", "piteous", or "mournful". It stems from the Latin word "Lacrimosa". This is significant on at least two levels – firstly, it fits with the series' theme of misery perfectly, and secondly (perhaps, more importantly), Lacrimosa is a movement of Mozart's Requiem in D Minor, famously known as the last piece of music he ever penned. Mozart's music is notably employed by the V.F.D. as a form of code.
It is unknown whether Lake Lachrymose has any relation to lachrymology.
Curdled Cave
Curdled Cave is where Aunt Josephine was hiding when Count Olaf, disguised as Captain Sham, forced her to hand over the Baudelaires to him. The Baudelaires go to rescue her, the only way to get her out of Curdled Cave was when Klaus told her that the cave was for sale. As she was afraid of realtors, she reluctantly agreed to go. It is believed that this could have once been a "safe place" as Kit reveals in The Penultimate Peril that there was a cave as a safe place until vicious realtors claimed it as their own. This could also be the cause of Aunt Josephine's fear of realtors.
The Finite Forest
The Finite Forest is where the Baudelaires meet misery as written in the book, The Miserable Mill. It is probably the source of wood for the Lucky Smells Lumbermill.
Municipalities
The city
The city in which the Baudelaires house was, and where 667 Dark Avenue is. It is never given a name. In the film, the Baudelaires' letter from their parents is addressed to Boston. The town where Uncle Monty lives is called Tedia. There is a logging town in a large forest called Paltryville.
Village of Fowl Devotees
V.F.D. (Village of Fowl Devotees) is the town where the Baudelaires go to live with Hector. They believe that it is related to the mysterious V.F.D. they are searching for, but in fact there is no connection.
Paltryville
Paltryville is where the Baudelaires go to live in "The Miserable Mill". Paltryville is surrounded by the dark and gloomy Finite Forest. It is not listed in any guidebook because of it's very low population. It consists of Patryville Station, Lucky Smells Lumbermill, Dr. Orwell's Optician, and few shops without windows.
Businesses and facilities
Anwhistle Aquatics
The Café Salmonella is a salmon-themed seafood restaurant mentioned throughout A Series of Unfortunate Events.
It first appeared in The Ersatz Elevator when Jerome Squalor (encouraged by his wife Esmé Squalor) took Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire there. According to Esmé, it is a very "in", or fashionable, restaurant. The café is located in the fish district. All waiters wear the waiter costumes described in Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography, using the salmon variety. The interior is completely decorated with salmon. There are also salmon in the flower vases instead of flowers.
All the food served contains salmon, with dishes such as Broiled Salmon, Chilled Salmon Salad, Creamy Salmon Soup, Salmon Ice Cream, Salmon Pie, Salmon Ravioli, and Salmon Puffs. Instead of using ice to keep drinks cool, the restaurant uses frozen chunks of salmon.
It is mentioned that the Café Salmonella captured the V.F.D salmon, which were trained to find forest fires.
Caligari Carnival
Heimlich Hospital is a hospital in The Hostile Hospital, a novel of the series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.
The hospital is only half completed, one half being fully functional, and the other half being a wooden frame. The lawn-one half well kept and green, the other a large plot of dirt. One side has with the word 'Heimlich' written in fancy gold, while the other an old piece of a cardboard box with the word 'Hospital' written in ballpoint pen. The completed half is a beautiful white building with carved portraits of famous doctors above the windows. Parts of the hospital include an operating theater, a library of records, patient rooms, and supply closets. The supply closets contain a sink, alphabet soup, rubber bands, doctor's coats, surgical masks, and sometimes a window.
Known wards include the "Stubbed Toe Ward", the "Sore Throat Ward", the "Ear Ward", the "Ward for People with Nasty Rashes", the "Accidentally Swallowed Something You Shouldn't Have Ward", the "Plague Ward", and the "Surgical Ward".
Every day, the Volunteers Fighting Disease sing to the patients in the hospital and give them heart-shaped balloons to cheer them up.
The name Heimlich is a reference to Henry Heimlich, an American physician best known for the Heimlich Maneuver.
Heimlich Hospital is burned down by Count Olaf in the The Hostile Hospital.
Hotel Denouement
The Last Chance General Store's front is covered in posters advertising goods sold at the store. Telegrams can be sent from the store (for free if it is an emergency). The owner does not charge the Volunteers Fighting Disease for things.
The store sells fresh limes, canned meat, plastic knives, white envelopes, red wine, leather wallets, sleeping bags and much more. The floor is made of different types of tile, all for sale. The usefulness of such a General Store is undetermined.
The store appears in The Hostile Hospital and in the movie Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events during the events of The Bad Beginning. Count Olaf looks through magazines there as his plan to overrun the Baudelaires with a train fails.
Lucky Smells Lumbermill
Prufrock Preparatory School is a dystopian school in The Austere Academy.
Named after The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot, it contains a cafeteria, an administrative building, and a theater where Vice Principal Nero performs his dire violin concerts for six hours at a time. Its motto inscribed on the arch at the entrance to the school is "Memento Mori" which means "Remember you will die". There is a dormitory that is shaped like a giant tombstone (from the Baudelaire's point of view) or a big toe (from Mr. Poe's point of view) and made entirely of stone, in which students have to have a parent or guardian's permission to stay. Inside the dormitory, there is a living room, a game room, and a large lending library. All students have their own room and a fresh bowl of fruit every Wednesday. If parent or guardian's permission is not obtained, which the Baudelaires, the main characters of the series, cannot obtain because they are orphans, then pupils are forced to live in the Orphans' Shack.
The shack, called "The Orphans' Shack" since Duncan and Isadora Quagmire, two orphans, were forced to live there is made entirely of
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