Best time to visit: From November through February to avoid the extreme heat and rain of the spring and summer months. Once inside, peek at the mural of unknown artistry, and hear rumored stories of the mysterious Virgin Mary visitation here. Arrive one hour before sunrise to avoid long lines, and visit between Mondays and Thursdays for fewer crowds. There, brightly colored homes sit alongside thousands of Arctic icebergs, creating an alluring natural landscape unlike anything you’ve seen before.

Not that he sounds abusive, or even particularly mean, just a little baffled by the fact of children, as against the idealised version (there's an interesting section where Christopher contrasts Milne's view of children as being touched by Heaven, with the Wordsworth passage from which it derives; Wordsworth talked about the world as seen by the child, where to AA it was the child as seen by the world*). The dramatic green cliffs where Mulafossur Waterfall tumbles into the ocean is one of the most mystical magical places in the world. He largely tried to avoid interviews and the like, and no wonder, when one of his first encounters is with a journalist who flat out lies about a conversation with him; she finds a toy watch and asks if it's his, he says not but she reports that he says yes, so she can use a quote from one of his fathers poems. What makes it magical: The fairytale-like Burg Eltz in Germany gives the ‘Beauty and the Beast’ castle a run for its money. In fact, many of the buildings and churches in Moscow were actually inspired by old Russian fairytales.The Enchanted Places" is a heartfelt and philosophical recount of Christopher's early years spent with his father and his playtoys.

Make this fairytale visit even sweeter with some exquisite macarons, and don’t leave without tasting the famous Alsace wine. Backtrack about 10 metres, turn left and follow the ride for 250 metres to the Milne and Shepard Memorial in front of you. Have an Indiana Jones adventure: Bagan is one of the world’s greatest archeological sites; it’s dotted with hundreds of mystical ancient temples, which you can explore on an Indiana Jones-like adventure. Step inside a postcard: Several Cotswolds villages have been deemed as “the most beautiful village in England”, so it’s only fair to see them all.Wade in the shallow blue waters to admire coral reefs, and visit at sunrise or sunset to see the sunlight cast beautifully on the boulders. Step inside a pink dream: In the 1800s, Jaipur’s Old City was painted pink to welcome a visiting king.

Aside from that, this book had such a great sense of setting; it is one those books that takes you to a time and place you have never been and makes it feel like home. Walk across its expansive mosaic courtyard in reverence, and admire its white marble domes and reflecting pools.

And of course who wouldn't have mixed feelings about the silly things they did as a kid not just being a family joke, or occasionally wheeled out as a tease in front of friends, but instead being immortalised for the whole world? The game is first mentioned in the 1928 novel The House at Pooh Corner, where Pooh accidentally drops a pine cone down the upstream side of the bridge and creates the game after he sees how it appears at the other end. To really live the whimsical LOTR fantasy like a hobbit, you can actually spend the night in a hobbit hole.

The lines between real life and fiction blur in this memoir, as Christoper doesn't always seem to remember which parts of the Pooh-books were actual parts of his life. One hundred years ago, a Canadian lieutenant took his pet bear cub with him when he was deployed to England to fight in World War I. Best time to visit: For flowering meadows and pleasant sunshine, visit in the summer (May through August). Apparently it’s enchanted because, as far as the number of trees was concerned, ‘nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four’.

What makes it magical: The Cotswolds is a stunning area in southern England that’s home to some of the most quintessential and picture-picture villages in the UK. I grew up in Crowborough and have played pooh sticks for decades me as a child, with my nephews and nieces, with my own children and now with my nephew’s daughter. Hot air balloons rise up in the sky, and you can catch this fairytale scenery right from one of the many cave hotels in Göreme. Another Bavarian gem is Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a picture-perfect medieval walled town full of colorful houses.