Kitchen Island

Kitchen Island is the setting for Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3. It is a skull shaped island that is the home base for Captain Syrup and the Black Sugar Gang. There are seven areas to the game, each one containing hidden treasure and one boss character at the end of each area. The common theme of all of the island's areas is that each one is related to food or something in the kitchen, in name and sometimes in appearance.

Stage 1: Rice Beach
Rice Beach is a basic starting world, with several beach-themed levels. The final couple of levels take place in the caverns at the back of the beach. The boss of the area is Spiked Koopa Troopa. After it is beaten, the water rises and levels 1, 2 and 3 are now underwater, helping the player to reach secrets.

Stage 2: Mt. Teapot
Mt. Teapot is a giant mountain shaped like a teakettle, filled with hot springs and some lava areas. This is the largest world of the game, amounting to 7 stages. The mountain's lid-shaped top hovers up and down because of the steam, out of reach until Wario activates a special trigger, canceling the steam and giving access to the mountaintop. The boss of the area is a muscular minotaur named Bīfun that tries to knock Wario off of a platform into the lava. He can be defeated quite easily by stunning him once and throwing him into the lava.

Stage 3: Sherbet Land
Completing Mt. Teapot normally will take Wario to Stove Canyon. However if Wario goes through a secret exit in one of the first stages of Mt. Teapot, Wario will reach Sherbet Land, the mountainous arctic area of the game, the first stage consisting of bridges leading to the frozen mountain range. The stage is filled with ice, slippery areas abounding throughout the area. Sherbet Land is also unique in that it has enemies permanently frozen in ice in the background. Hinyari, the penguin boss can be beaten two different ways. Normally, or by leaving through the door in the boss's room since the boss' area is unmarked in this level. As a bonus world, there are secret exits in some stages, meaning there are two paths to the boss.

Stage 4: Stove Canyon
A sunken cavern near the center of the island. The area is filled with cavernous levels and lava, making travel difficult. The boss of the Canyon is a Funfun, a giant, floating tiki head with a stone tongue that can shatter the platforms Wario stands on, and spit balls of hot lava rocks which can be thrown back at him. On the last normal level, there is the only secret exit in this stage. Also, in the first level, lava chases Wario until he reaches the door.

Stage 5: SS Tea Cup
The levels in this area consist not only of the pirate ship itself, but the caverns, beaches, oceans, and jungles surrounding it. The boss of the pirate ship is Captain Syrup's pet, a massive buzzard named Bobo.

Stage 6: Parsley Woods
This is a large forest area, with two stages that take place on moving shipment trains and two other stages that involve climbing fork-shaped trees in addition to other forest-themed stages. The boss of this area is Zenisukī, a giant ghost.

Stage 7: Syrup Castle
A large, imposing tower at the corner of the island, a stone fortress with a skull-shaped castle at the top. As Wario fights his way up the tower, he destroys it bit-by-bit, revealing that its foundation is actually the giant golden Princess Toadstool statue. The final battle is against Captain Syrup. She summons Denpū the genies to fight Wario, and upon her defeat, tries to take Wario out by dropping a huge bomb that destroys the last of her castle. Revealing that the statue was in the castle, Wario tries to take it but Mario arrives and claims the statue.