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The Best Fantasy Worlds

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Updated May 22, 2024 243.2K views 81 items

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Over 14.4K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of Most Incredible Fantasy Worlds

This is a list of the most awesome, spectacular, and entertaining fantasy worlds created. These fantasy worlds are not always just from books, but also from movies and fantasy games, too. This is a ranking of the greatest, most imaginative worlds ever dreamed up. Vote for your favorite mythical worlds, and add fantasy world names that you notice are missing. And certainly, feel free to re-rank this list in any order you want.

Some of the most iconic fantasy worlds ever created are those from books (and many have some pretty fun names as well). We all owe a debt of gratitude to the best fantasy authors for dreaming up these exotic lands. Some fantasy lands, like Middle Earth, Dune, and Narnia, made incredibly successful jumps from fantasy fiction to film. They are absolutely worthy of inclusion among the greatest fantasy movies of all time. Others, like Terra Nova (from FOX's ill-fated TV show of the same name), intrigued, but failed to prove popular enough to stay on the air. Terra Nova, sadly, joins this list of great TV shows canceled before their time.

What fantasy world do you think is the greatest ever? That's certainly subjective. Fans of Star Wars and Star Trek could probably argue back and forth about this for decades. Oh, wait, they have!

Anyway, just vote. It's time to decide, once and for all, which fantasy world is the best ever created.

1
12,015 votes
Middle-earth
J. R. R. Tolkien's Hobbit and Lord of the Rings series (from 1937)
2
6,858 votes
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (from 1997)
3
3,637 votes
Asgard
Norse Mythology (from the 13th century)
4
1,532 votes
The World of the Witcher
Andrzej Sapkowski The Witcher book series and associated adaptations and short stories (from 1986).
5
3,507 votes
Wakanda
Marvel Comics (from 1966)
6
5,226 votes
Westeros
George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones (from 1996)
7
3,740 votes
Atlantis
Plato's Timaeus and Critias (from 360 BC)
8
5,173 votes
Narnia
C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia (from 1950)
9
1,716 votes
Camelot
King Arthur legends (from the 1170s)
10
1,155 votes
Nirn
The Elder Scrolls (since 1994)

11
2,788 votes
Hyrule
The Legend of Zelda (from 1986)
12
1,226 votes
Naboo
Star Wars universe
13
4,110 votes
Wonderland
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (from 1865)
14
2,352 votes
Pokémon World
(from 1997)
15
2,683 votes
Forgotten Realms
Dungeons & Dragons (from 1967)
16
1,962 votes
Labryinth
Jim Henson's Labyrinth (1986)
17
905 votes
Camp Half-Blood
Rick Riorden Percy Jackson and the Olympians
18
535 votes
Marvel Cinematic Universe
19
361 votes
Marvel Comics Universe
20
361 votes
Discworld

21
362 votes
Howl's Moving Castle
22
515 votes
100 Acre Wood
23
2,357 votes
Pandora
James Cameron's Avatar (from 2009)
24
917 votes
Randland
25
1,723 votes
Fantasia
Michael Ende's Neverending Story (from 1979)
26
1,938 votes
Azeroth
Warcraft series (since 1994)
27
446 votes
Cosmere
Brandon Sanderson's works including Elantris, Mistborn, Warbreaker, The Stormlight Archive, White Sand, and stories contained in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection.
28
305 votes
Peter Pan
29
318 votes
DC Comics Universe
30
453 votes
Jurassic World

Middle-earth

Asgard

Wakanda

Westeros

Atlantis

Nirn

Hyrule

Naboo

Wonderland

Forgotten Realms

Camp Half-Blood

Marvel Comics Universe

100 Acre Wood

Pandora

Fantasia

Azeroth

Cosmere

DC Comics Universe