I · 1Paul's home, set in a valley between the Wasatch and Oquirrh Mountains.
I · 1The Wasatch Mountains rise to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. Mount Olympus can be seen from anywhere in the city.
Mount Olympus
Utah
Also known as Olympus
I · 1The twin-peaked mountain Paul can see from his piano. It inspires much of his music.
I · 7Paul dreams of climbing it but assumes his heart never will let him.
II · 3Visible from his hospital window, along with the cemetery where Jonahs is buried.
I · 1Stands apart from the surrounding peaks because of its twin summits and rocky outcroppings.
I · 20Seen from the street by Paul's childhood home, the sun sets behind it.
Assembly Hall
Utah
Also known as Temple Square
I · 1The hall on Temple Square where Paul plays to a full house, at a Steinway Model D.
I · 3Olivia's mother played piano here before she died.
I · 3Performers enter by the back door. Its green room has a wide wall mirror above a long wooden table laid with food and drinks.
Kingsbury Hall
Utah
I · 5Paul plans a show there for September 23.
Abravanel Hall
Utah
II · 8Site of Paul's February benefit concert, Celebrate Life, which raised money for scholarships at Salt Lake Community College for students affected by congenital heart disease.
II · 11The concert sells out.
Primary Children's Hospital
Utah
Also known as Primary Children's Medical Center
I · 1Where newborn Paul had his first heart catheterization.
I · 19Where Paul had his Fontan at fourteen. Artists were painting a mural of children in a park as he left.
I · 18Twenty years later, the same mural greets him at Dr. Brown's office.
II · 3Paul's home while he waits for a heart. He calls it “The Suffering Inn.”
II · 5Its waiting-room Steinway becomes Paul's daily stop after the transplant.
I · 18Its name hangs in white letters above three round columns, framed by tinted glass windows.
I · 18Crayon drawings hang on the front desk. The lobby mural's colors have been retouched; a smiling girl in a yellow shirt reminds Paul of Stephanie.
I · 19The rooms of its Pediatric Intensive Care Unit have animals painted on the walls; Paul's window looks toward Olympus.
St. Thomas Women's Center
Utah
I · 12Where Zoe is born.
Mount Olympus High
Utah
I · 2The high school whose pool Paul swims his Eagle Scout mile in.
I · 2Its indoor pool is Olympic-sized and cold, with bleachers and tall glass windows. Posters and class projects cover the hallway walls.
Evergreen Middle School
Utah
I · 10Paul's middle school. He climbs its stairs to room 305 after surgery.
I · 10Rooms 300 to 325 sit up two flights of stairs with a halfway landing; room 305 is right by the stairs.
I · 10Its teachers' lounge, next to the library, has a purple carpet, vending and soda machines, an eight-chair table, a blue-and-white striped couch and a wooden coffee table.
I · 10A fifteen-minute drive from the Cardall house.
The Cardall house
Utah
Also known as the basement
I · 6Paul's childhood home. Paul, Dan and Jonahs shared the basement bedroom, with three beds in a row.
I · 21On Christmas Eve, Paul finds Jonahs in crisis in the old basement room.
II · 19Paul moves back into the basement after leaving home.
I · 7In the basement bedroom, Dan's bed is on the left, Jonahs's in the middle and Paul's on the far right, beside a window that lets in morning sun.
I · 7Upstairs, a red couch sits by a window that looks out on Mount Olympus, and stools line the kitchen counter. A playing field is a five-minute walk away.
I · 10A window by the breakfast table looks out at Mount Olympus.
I · 20Steps lead up from the basement bedroom to the kitchen, which has a pantry and a counter with stools and catches the setting sun.
I · 21At Christmas the front yard has six bobbing reindeer, a tree wrapped in golden lights with fake gifts, and a wreath in multicolored lights on the door.
I · 21Inside, decorations cover every piece of furniture and wall, and the house smells of cookies, chocolate and banana bread.
I · 21A couch sits by the kitchen window facing toward Mount Olympus, with the Christmas tree, hung in silver and red, opposite it.
I · 21A door leads down dark stairs with a wooden rail to the basement, where the boys' old room has a window.
Pines Ranch
Utah
Also known as the family cabin, Pine Ranch
I · 4The family cabin, built by Paul's father and uncles, about thirty minutes from the city.
II · 4Where Paul photographed Jonahs fly fishing.
I · 4Half a mile off the highway, a dirt road leads through gates under an arch reading Pines Ranch. Beyond them are pine forest and a grassy field of horses and foals.
I · 4Mountains rise behind the cabin, which has a front porch. Inside are family photos, oil paintings of mountains, and Jonahs's aged-looking photo of the cabin over the fireplace.
I · 4A stone path behind the cabin leads to a shed with a pull-string light and a shelf of fly rods, reels and nets.
Smith & Morehouse Reservoir
Utah
I · 5The brothers' favorite fly-fishing spot below the dam.
I · 5About thirty minutes up the canyon road. A wide dam sits among greenery and mountains, and poison ivy grows along the bank.
I · 5The water below the dam is clear enough to count the stones on the bottom. It holds brown trout, and white-faced ibis fly overhead.
Hurricane, Utah
Utah
More about Hurricane, Utah is revealed in the books.
Downtown office
Utah
II · 10Paul's coworking office within walking distance of Temple Square, with a view toward Mount Olympus.
Stone Angel Music
Utah
Also known as the studio
II · 26The building Paul buys for his own label and paints gray. Olivia visits it once.
Paul and Olivia's house
Utah
I · 1The living-room piano faces a window that looks out on Mount Olympus. Stereo speakers in the kitchen play whatever Paul's iPod shuffles to.
I · 1The future nursery, across the hall from their bedroom, still has unpainted walls. Olivia has already chosen the color.
I · 8Has a front porch with stairs and Paul's office upstairs. Neil's room and white crib, with a mobile of plastic animals, are upstairs so the piano won't wake him.
I · 11Paul's piano stands in the living room, with Neil's rocker beside it and a coat hanger in the corner.
I · 13Paul keeps a home office where he reads fan emails before dawn.
I · 16Neil's toy basket sits in a corner of the living room.
I · 18The piano has a black, glossy surface.
Washington, D.C.
Beyond Utah
II · 19Paul's parents run their church's visitor center here.
II · 21Paul plays a Christmas service here.
The cruise ship
Beyond Utah
Also known as Porto Turistico di Roma
II · 22Sails from Rome to the Holy Land. Paul meets Tina in its art gallery.
II · 23Paul and Tina meet every day and visit the Holy Land together.
Cleveland, Ohio
Beyond Utah
II · 23Tina's hometown, with a stone church whose round window casts a rainbow over morning mass.
II · 25Paul and Tina dine at her favorite Italian restaurant.
Creative Haven
Beyond Utah
II · 27A house in Franklin, Tennessee that helps music-industry artists with their mental health. Matt Brown's office has no religious paintings.
St. Stephen's Cathedral
Beyond Utah
More about St. Stephen's Cathedral is revealed in the books.