Places
- Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey, site of the first organized base ball game
- Elysian Fields Avenue, New Orleans, a setting and a symbolic element in A Streetcar Named Desire
- Elysian Fields, Texas
- Avenue of the Elysian Fields, Champs-Élysées, major thoroughfare in Paris
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