History Main / InnBetweenTheWorlds

* In ''You Look Like Death: Tales From ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' Klaus can [[AstralProjection astrally project]] into a dimension called The Void. The only building is a bar/hotel where souls reside until the CelestialBureaucracy decides whether to put them in Heaven or Hell.

* ''VideoGame/SpaceStation13'' has the Afterlife Bar wher dead players hang out until they hopefully get revived on a clone body.

*** [[https://mimir.net/places/sigil/the-pentacle/ The Pentacle]] is a specific inn in Sigil known for hosting a surprisingly large number of portals, even by the standards of the City of Doors.

* BarFullOfAliens: The Inn is between worlds, so it's very much related to the Bar in that the patrons will come from a large array of backgrounds and from very far afield. In fact, they might be almost the same franchise simply with different managers, depending on the time of day wherever you find either. In both, however, even if everybody inside all looks "normal" to you, you can pretty much [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith bet they're not]]. In the Inn, however, they might also not even be technically aliens, as such. Just people out of time and place, your own gods, random demons or angles, nature spirits, anthropomorphic personifications of abstracts, TheFairFolk... whatever... trying to have a quiet pint. As well as actual aliens. Common rules still apply: don't knock over anybody else's drink and never try to steal their chips.

* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/441859/sunsets-isekai Sunset's Isekai]]'' is a bar where people from just about any show, game, book, anime, comic book, or fanfic can have a drink and talk about their life, issues, or philosophy with Sunset Shimmer.

* [[FanficRecs/MegaCrossover Arisugawa's Locket]] also exists simultaneously across many dimensions.

* Sigil from the ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] setting is the city equivalent of this trope -- located on the inside of a torus on top of an infinitely tall spire located in the exact center of the planes (which are infinite in size -- no, don't think too hard about that one), it is simultaneously connected to almost everywhere in D&D cosmology through its virtually infinite amounts of portals, all of whom differ in size, place they lead to and what opens them. Because of this, Sigil is a place where one can expect to find almost anything. It's still a somewhat normal town with everyday life and time that flows normally, however. Well, as much "normal" as can be a city built on the inside of a torus so that you can see it curving above you, where belief can shape reality, visited every day by strange creatures from all over the multiverse, ruled by an enigmatic being who kills those who worship her by pulling her sharp shadow over them...

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf'' episode "[[Recap/WhatIfS1E9WhatIfTheWatcherBrokeHisOath What If The Watcher Broke His Oath?]]", The Guardians Of The Multiverse meet inside an extradimensional pub based on one described in Captain Carter's biography.

* Terra City, from ''[[TabletopGame/TheChroniclesOfFate Chaos]]'', is more of a [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Multiverse-sized ecumenopolis-city between the worlds]]. Warriors, wanderers, travelers, traders, troubadours, and every other sort of strange folk come and go here every day from the most distant multiverses. It's probably not hard to guess that Terra City has hundreds of septillions (at a low estimate) of bars, inns, pubs, watering holes, and other, much stranger types of establishments, different ones of which are popular with beings from different parts of the omniverse.

* The Quester's Rest in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX''. It is visited by several {{cameo}} characters from previous ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' games; and you can meet with and travel with AlternateUniverse versions of yourself. (IE, other players who have the game.)

* The Four Winds Bar, in Music/BlueOysterCult's ''Astronomy'', is such a strange place, poised where the Four Winds meet.

** ''Manga/AllAroundTypeMoon'' is also almost entirely focused around Ahnenerbe with a much larger focus on the crossover aspect (including ADayInTheLimelight chapters for ''VideoGame/FateExtra'', ''LightNovel/FateZero'', and ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya''), with a ''bit'' more drama. Notably, [[Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya Illya and Miyu]] start working part-time at the restaurant, only to meet the mainline versions of Rin, Ruby, Shirou, Luvia... and Illya herself. HilarityEnsues. It also serves as the staging ground for ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm''.

It is possible that the Inn was set up specifically as a TruceZone by all sides both to allow respite from a war and to allow the combatants to have a place to discuss peace treaties or possible surrender. It's not in anyone's universe so it's a true place of neutrality. Plus they have really good chili dogs.

* ''Bear's Cafe'' is in an AfterlifeAntechamber where the dead get a final meal before boarding the AfterlifeExpress.

* ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'' has the Oceanview Motel And Casino, which is a funny twist on this trope in itself. It's not a hub level despite there being many doors in it, but rather, it's somewhere you spontaneously end up transported to while traversing between realities, usually to form a very literal bridge between Thresholds of The Oldest House. The Motel resembles "every roadside motel" at once, and it's described to be something of a psychic DreamLand, meaning its form is likely [[YourMindMakesItReal a projection based off a collective subconscious understanding of what a motel is]]. There's no staff, but the mini-fridges keep getting restocked, and it's cozy enough that [[MundaneUtility some FBC agents have reported chilling out there as a relaxing getaway with no ill effects.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'' has the Oceanview Motel And Casino, which is a funny twist on this trope in itself. It's not a hub level despite there being many doors in it. Instead, every time you find yourself transported there, it's to bridge the gap between one area and another reality (sometimes literally, as a bridge will appear across a Threshold within The Oldest House.) The Motel resembles "every roadside motel" at once, indicating it might be a projection based off of the collective subconscious. There's no staff, but the mini-fridges keep getting restocked, and it's cozy enough that [[MundaneUtility some FBC agents have reported chilling out there as a relaxing getaway with no ill effects.]]

* Creator/SergeyLukyanenko's novel ''Literature/RoughDraft'' is about a regular guy who ends up being erased from reality and becomes a "[[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual functional]]", a not-quite-human being with a specific function and certain superhuman abilities to better perform said function. In the protagonist's case, he becomes a sort-of customs officer. His "function" is to be in charge of an interdimensional building, which is also his new home. In our world (Earth 2 or Demos), the building appears as an old water tower near a railway station. The tower can create certain objects of comfort based on the functional's will. The doors on the first floor all lead to other worlds. Only the resident customs officer can open them. The trick is, nobody knows where the doors will lead before they open for the first time. The customs officer can charge people tariffs for certain restricted items and keep the money. It's very difficult to destroy a tower. One way is with a [[spoiler: thermonuclear device]].

* "The League Of Extraordinary Barts" story in ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons Super Spectacular" has three versions of Bart summoned to another universe. Bartman compares the situation to the "Last Call At The Parallel Bar" ''Radioactive Man'' comic. We see a panel of three alternate Radioactive Men that have been summoned to a bar.

** ''Party Animals'' is set in Bonjaxx's Bar on the planet Maruthea which sits at the center of the Time Vortex. Given the MassiveMultiplayerCrossover characters that appear at the party, it could be connected to various dimensions of the multiverse.
** ''Hotel Historia'' is about the eponymous chain of time travelling hotels with patrons from all over history.
* The Starlight Citadel of ''{{ComicBook/Excalibur}}'' is a place that contains doorways to every universe in the multiverse and is the base of operations for the interversal policing group the Captain Britain Corps.

* ''Franchise/IrisWildthyme'' visits an alternate 19th Century Paris where a NegativeSpaceWedgie links to other parts of time and space. The nearby Moulin Rouge has a clientel if time travellers and aliens.

* "The League Of Extraordinary Barts" story in ''ComicBook/The Simpsons Super Spectacular" has three versions of Bart summoned to another universe. Bartman compares the situation to the "Last Call At The Parallel Bar" ''Radioactive Man'' comic. We see a panel of three alternate Radioactive Men that have been summoned to a bar.

* The light novel and anime ''Literature/RestaurantToAnotherWorld'' has a weird and somewhat downplayed version of this: six days out of the week, Western Restaurant Nekoya is just a western-fare restaurant in Japan. But on Saturdays, the restaurants' door manifests to many places in a fantasy world, with the clientele going from businessmen, office ladies, Treasure Hunters, Fairies, Elves, Dwarves, Lizardfolks, Wizards, Knights, Samurai, Nobles, and one Admiral. More unusual is that it employs one of the six Dragon Gods of the fantasy world as a waitress, and is considered part of the treasure hoard of another one. Nekoyas' head chef had played a role in shaping the fate of many within the fantasy world: from feeding Fried Shrimp to a starving Knight three years ago [[BringHelpBack that gave him the energy to reach the castle and save a Dutchy from destruction]], to inadvertently kickstarting a Culinary Arms Race by many chefs and merchants seeking to recreate the modern dishes which served to uplift Pasta and Spaghetti from a bland Commoners' dish to a meal filled with cheeses and sauces that Nobles could also enjoy, to even [[GivingRadioToTheRomans selling a man a bag of potatoes so he could enjoy Croquettes whenever he wanted to]]; and thanks to the [[CallingARabbitASmeerp Cobblers' Tubers]] the man was able to save his nation from a great famine which helped him to become its newly-appointed Emperor. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that the reason Nekoyas' front door connects to the fantasy world in the first place is because the Head Chefs' grandmother was TheChosenOne of that world who wound up in Japan after defeating the previous Demon King, [[IChoseToStay and decided to remain there]].]]

* The light novel and anime ''Literature/RestaurantToAnotherWorld'' has a weird and somewhat downplayed version of this: six days out of the week, Western Restaurant Nekoya is just a western-fare restaurant in Japan. But on Saturdays, the restaurants' door manifests to many places in a fantasy world, with the clientele going from businessmen, office ladies, Treasure Hunters, Fairies, Elves, Dwarves, Lizardfolks, Wizards, Knights, Samurai, Nobles, and one Admiral. More unusual is that it employs one of the six Dragon Gods of the fantasy world as a waitress, and is considered part of the treasure hoard of another one.

* The light novel and anime ''Literature/RestaurantToAnotherWorld'' has a weird and somewhat downplayed version of this: six days out of the week, Western Restaurant Nekoya is just a western-fare restaurant in Japan. But on Saturdays, the restaurant's door opens to many places in a fantasy world, with the clientele going from businessmen and office ladies to wizards, dragons and lionmen. More unusual is that it employs one of the six gods of the fantasy world, and is considered part of the treasure hoard of another one.

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'';

%%%

%%%

* HubLevel: What this place might serve as in video games.
* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: Also an island of the fantastic in the ordinary world, but Inns don't move around as much, are much more social than Little Shops (where your interactions are almost always limited to a single shopkeeper), and are less focused on the acquisition of magical items and more on traveling or swapping stories.
* BazaarOfTheBizarre: More social than Little Shops but less than the Inn. The Inn is also not particularly focused on commerce (except food, drink, and sometimes rooms).

* PortalCrossroadWorld: A world (or city etc.) existing in one universe, but containing access to many others.
* GoodGuyBar (or BadGuyBar): Or [[GreyAndGrayMorality Grey and Gray]] Girl Bar or [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Blue and Orange]] Gay Bar. Always check before you ask for a running tab or try to use the bathroom.

* EldritchLocation: {{Supertrope}}: May or may not be hospitable, definitely ''weird.''

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* The Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} has the Cafe Ahnenerbe, a rustic little restaurant noted for its excellent curry, which is noted as a "place of impossible meetings" since it connects to all dimensions of the Nasuverse. The end results of the meetings can be, [[Anime/CarnivalPhantasm well... eccentric]]. The one to blame is (as always when it comes to [[TheMultiverse dimensional travel]]) [[VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}} Zelretch]].

* [[Creator/MarkMillar Mark Millar's]] ''The Magic Order'' has the Abington Hotel, a wizard-only restaurant that exists on the borders of time and space. It connects to every point in time and guests aren't allowed to talk to other diners or leave through a different door that they came in through.
* The White Rat in the italian ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'' series ''X-Mickey'' is a [=XIXth=]-century-like pub where people from the Dimension of the Impossible go to meet their real-world clients who wish to visit the Dimension of the Impossible.

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]

** The Ahnenerbe is an accessible restaurant in ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'', but in Episode 5 it gets used this way when [[spoiler:Tomoe and Shiki]] say their farewells to each other at the end of the movie.

* The light novel and anime ''LightNovel/RestaurantToAnotherWorld'' has a weird and somewhat downplayed version of this: six days out of the week, Western Restaurant Nekoya is just a western-fare restaurant in Japan. But on Saturdays, the restaurant's door opens to many places in a fantasy world, with the clientele going from businessmen and office ladies to wizards, dragons and lionmen. More unusual is that it employs one of the six gods of the fantasy world, and is considered part of the treasure hoard of another one.

[[folder:Audio Plays]]
* The ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' episode, ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho051TheWormery The Wormery]]'' is set in ''Bianca's Cabaret''. A bar on a distant planet full of wormholes for bringing in customers from all over time and space.
[[/folder]]