User:Pigby/List of places in Pushing Daisies

This is a list of fictional places in the ABC dramedy Pushing Daisies.

Couer d'Couers
Couer d'Couers (cœur de cœurs, "heart of hearts") is the town where the story begins. It is Ned and Chuck's home town where they grow up next door to each other.

Couer d'Couers was established in 1802 according to the welcome sign. The real-life location of the town is never given, although its unregistered ZIP Code of 01251 would fall in Massachusetts. This is consistent with the fact that the town is located not far from the ocean.

Locations in Couer d'Couers include:


 * Ned's childhood home, the house where Ned lives with both parents until age nine when his mother dies. Ned's father abandons the house at the same time he abandons Ned when he didn't return to pick him up at boarding school. When Ned returns 19 years later, the house is empty and boarded up. It is later used by Chuck to hide her father when he is alive again.


 * Chuck's childhood home, the house where Chuck lives with her father. After he dies, Lily and Vivian move in. After Chuck is killed Lily and Vivian stay and eventually turn Chuck's room into a cheese locker. Olive is a frequent visitor at the house. The house is painted different colors and features a yard fenced in by a tall iron fence.


 * The Boutique Travel Travel Boutique, a travel agency


 * The Schatz Brothers Funeral Home

The City
The unnamed city contains most of the primary locations within the series. It is not far from Couer d'Couers, which is most likely a suburb of the city.

Locations in the city include:


 * The Liberty Building, a six story Beaux-Arts building which houses The Pie Hole (Ned's restaurant) on the ground floor and an apartment complex above, where Ned and Olive are tennants and next door neighbors. The building also has an accessible roof where Ned and Chuck sometimes share private conversations. A torch, similar to that of the Statue of Liberty is displayed at the top along with the word "LIBERTY" written vertically. The building is somewhat modeled after the Flatiron Building in New York.


 * A two story building which houses a Chinese restaurant on the ground floor and Emerson Cod's office upstairs.


 * The city morgue where Emerson and Ned communicate with murder victims.


 * Broadview Luxury Apartment Complex, a tall apartment building near The Pie Hole.


 * Balsam's Bittersweets Taffy and Sweets Emporium, the candy store across the street from The Pie Hole.


 * The Conjurer's Castle, a magic show venue


 * The Come & Sleep Hotel


 * The Pop-up Palace, a bookstore devoted entirely to pop-up books.

Other Places

 * Papen County, a fictional U.S. county located somewhere along the coasts of the United States. The city and the Papen Harbor Lighthouse are located within the county limits, and presumably the town of Couer d'Couers as well. Papen County takes its name from the wealthy Dutch-American Papen family, whom Emerson Cod refers to as the "first family [chronologically] of Papen County".


 * The Cemetary, the burial place of Ned's mother and Chuck's father. In the first episode, the burial plots are located across a steep hill. In subsequent episodes, the same cemetary is show on level ground with more trees around. The dirt in the cemetary is surprisingly fine and powdery and free of rocks and roots, which is particularly helpful in digging up and reburring bodies quickly.


 * Longborough School for Boys, the boarding school in the far away town of North Thrush where Ned's father sends him after his mother's death. Many of the episodes begin with flashbacks from Ned's time at school there in which he would learn a lesson that would be applicable to the current situation.


 * Sisters of the Divine Magnatum, a far away nunnery where Olive goes after being stressed out at keeping so many secrets from Lily and Vivian. Lily also spent time at the nunnery and it was there that she gave birth to Chuck.


 * The Papen Harbor Lighthouse, home of the McQuoddy family.


 * The VonRoenn Windmill