Top 18 Magical Worlds in Fiction
Some you reach through a wardrobe, some through a train platform, one by climbing a tree. Pick the one you would actually move to.
1Hogwarts
The wizarding school of the Harry Potter books, complete with moving staircases and a forbidden forest.
2Narnia
The snowbound country behind the wardrobe in C.S. Lewis's novels, ruled by a lion and a witch.
3Middle-earth
Tolkien's world, built with its own languages, races and several ages of history before the story starts.
4Oz
The land at the end of the yellow brick road, with four witches and a wizard who is neither.
5Wonderland
Lewis Carroll's world down the rabbit hole, where logic is a punchline.
6Neverland
The island where children never grow older, guarded by pirates and a ticking crocodile.
7The Enchanted Wood
The forest of Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree, where a new land arrives at the top of the tree each week.
8Discworld
Terry Pratchett's flat world, carried on four elephants standing on a giant turtle.
9Westeros
The continent of Game of Thrones, where the magic is rationed and the politics are not.
10Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin's archipelago, where knowing a thing's true name gives you power over it.
11Fantasia
The realm of The NeverEnding Story, dissolving into nothing unless a child keeps reading.
12Asgard
The golden realm of Norse myth and Marvel's Thor, joined to the rest by a rainbow bridge.
13Hyrule
The kingdom of The Legend of Zelda, rebuilt and re-explored across four decades of games.
14Azeroth
The world of Warcraft, split between two factions and endlessly re-mapped by expansions.
15Pandora
The moon of Avatar, with floating mountains and a forest that turns out to be a network.
16The Spirit World
The bathhouse realm of Spirited Away, where taking a job means giving up your name.
17Terabithia
The imagined kingdom two children build in the woods in Katherine Paterson's novel.
18Camelot
Arthur's court, the round table and the wizard who arranged everything in advance.
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