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* Avalon fulfills this trope in ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''.

* The Unknown in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall''.

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* The Magical Kingdom that Arcs and Karts came from in ''{{Moetan}}''.

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* The Land of Magic in ''Series/{{Merlin 1998}}''.
* The version of Britain in ''{{Series/Merlin 2008}}''

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* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', the Isle of Yggdrasil is a magical place protected by the White Seal where the World Tree can be found in.

* ''Roleplay/TheTown.''.

* The Labyrinth in ''ComicBook/LadyDeath'' by Avatar/Boundless comics is a DarkFantasy version of this trope, but it still counts since the main protagonist is pulled into a magical realm populated by monsters and demi-humans.

** ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'' confirms the existence of other magical worlds, including the one where [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the White Witch Jadis]] comes from. (Again, called "Charn," but that's technically just a city.) [[spoiler:She used a FantasticNuke to kill everyone else in that world; once she left, it ceased to exist]].

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' has Nevernever.

* ''{{Glenraven}}'', which is also somewhat of a {{Deconstruction}}.

* Greywall’d in ''Literature/{{Murderess}}'' is a parallel world where magic is used much more commonly than it is on ‘[[CallARabbitASmeerp Gæa]]’, and humans who cross over into it and survive often gain strong magical powers. However, local humans generally think of magic and its wielders along the lines of BadPowersBadPeople.

* In ''Literature/TheLastOfTheReallyGreatWhangdoodles'', Whangdoodleland is a small otherworld created by the Whangdoodle as a refuge for himself and the other magical creatures who fled Earth when rationality overtook imagination. It's a monarchy, with the Whangdoodle as king.
* The Wizarding world in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' is technically part of our world keeping TheMasquerade, yet is so disconnected from the {{muggle}} world that is by all practical effects a Magical Land.
* ''Literature/TheSecretOfPlatform13'' has the Island, which has various other names (including Avalon), and can be accessed by a PortalDoor that opens for nine days every nine years. (It's technically part of our world, though, just hidden somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.) As a bit of a twist, there are still lots of magical creatures living in the normal world under TheMasquerade; when the door between worlds opens, magical creatures migrate from one side to the other at their leisure. Human {{Muggle}}s live on the Island, including the royal family, but they seem to be a minority.

* Bottom World in ''Series/TheLegendOfDickAndDom'' (contains kingdoms like Fyredor and Ovendor, full of {{WackyWaysideTribe}}s.)

* ''Series/TheMagicians2016'': There is an in-universe series of books about the magical land of Fillory, which is basically [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Narnia]] without the villains. Quentin Coldwater, the main character, is ecstatic when he finds out Fillory is real. However, it turns out that while there are many wonderful things about Fillory, in the end it has many dark parts, like any other world. Sexism is rampant, political chaos is the order of the day, the gods are hedonistic idiots (albeit well-meaning ones), and DisproportionateRetribution combined with MightMakesRight is the most common law. Sometimes it seems like the only reason people fall in love with Fillory is because the atmosphere is 0.2% opium. As Quentin notes, that's kind of a cheating way to get you to like a place.

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* Mewni in ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''

* The Unknown in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall''.

* "As the Universe is to real people, so the Fantaverse is to imaginary," says PuffTheMagicDragon in ''Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody.''.

* Are almost always a [[TheKingdom monarchy]].

** Which itself has a secondary Magical Land revealed in the cards called, Witchelny. And like the name says, Witchmon, Wizardmon and other magical Digimon come from here.

The "another world" part of TrappedInAnotherWorld. It may be [[DownTheRabbitHole down a rabbit hole]], [[PortalPool at the bottom of a pool]], [[CoolGate through a mysterious gate]], or [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia inside a wardrobe]]. What is certain is that people from other worlds will be visiting it. Usually the MagicalLand is in AnotherDimension; but it can also be [[HereThereBeDragons unexplored territory]], an IslandOfMystery, or a LostWorld. The exact type depends on the age of the work, as [[ScienceMarchesOn geography marches on]], the trope has shifted from [[ForgottenTrope lost continents]] to entire [[AnotherDimension other dimensions]] (or in the case of ScienceFiction, [[AllPlanetsAreEarthlike far off planets]] or [[TimeTravel time periods]]).

** Which itself has a secondary Magical Land revealed in the cards called, Witchelny. And like the name says, Witchmon, Wizardmon and other magical digimon come from here.

* The un-named other world from ''Literature/{{Coraline}}'', which explores the negative connotations and ambiguities of the concept by making the entire land an evil trap.

** ''Theatre/{{Quidam}}'' goes DownTheRabbitHole to a melancholy magical land where the heroine learns about the universiality of loneliness.

* Just about everyplace in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' that isn't Earth, but particularly the Incipisphere.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', Finn spends the episode "Puhoy" trapped in a Pillow World. He spends his entire adult life there, eventually marrying a girl and raising a family, causing him to [[IChooseToStay choose to stay there]] until he dies, [[spoiler: when it is revealed that the whole thing was [[OrWasItADream probably]] just a dream.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/HellboyAnimated: Sword of Storms'', Hellboy gets pulled into a magic land inhabited by {{youkai}} from Myth/JapaneseMythology.

* The Kingdom of Wisdom from ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth''.* In ''Literature/TheShadowSpeaker'', the main characters go to a planet called Ginen, which is full of people with magical powers and has BambooTechnology.

* In Creator/DevonMonk's ''[[Literature/AgeOfSteam Dead Iron]]'', [=LeFel=] wants to get back to the land he was exiled from, where he will be immortal.

** ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'' confirms the existence of other magical worlds, including the one where [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the White Witch Jadis]] comes from. (Again, called "Charn," but that's technically just a city.) [[spoiler:She used a FantasticNuke to kill everyone else in that world; once she left, it ceased to exist.)

** ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'' confirms the existence of other magical worlds, including the one where [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the White Witch Jadis]] comes from. (Again, called "Charn," but that's technically just a city.)

* Narnia from ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia''.

* ''Literature/{{Everworld}}.''

* Jewel Land from ''Franchise/{{Jewelpet}}'', where the magical titular characters come from. Despite the name, Sweetsland isn't this, but a country in Jewel Land.

* ''TheTwelveKingdoms''

* ''TheFaerieQueene'' has [[LandOfFaerie Faerie Land]]... which [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis is a real place]].

-->'''Crow:''' "Well Mike, I guess it's just a magical land. I HATE MAGICAL LANDS!"

->''"Behold! I have emerged from the place of spells and fairies".''
--> -- '''Bender,''' ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}},'' "A Pharoh To Remember"

* Lack any technology beyond [[PublicDomainArtifact 1923]], if they even got that far, [[MedievalStasis even if thousands of years pass throughout its history]]. With the exception of {{Ancient Artifact}}s, but the knowlegde to make them has been {{lost|Technology}}.

--> --'''Bender,''' ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}},'' ''A Pharoh To Remember''

[[caption-width-right:300:It's all ooohs and aaahs until you get lost.\\\
[[TheFairFolk Also, those aren't insects.]]]]

--> -- '''Bender,''' ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}},'' ''A Pharoh To Remember''

The "another world" part of TrappedInAnotherWorld. It may [[CoolGate be right]] [[DownTheRabbitHole down a rabbit hole]], [[PortalPool at the bottom of a pool]], over a mysterious mountain range, or [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia through a wardrobe]]. What is certain is that people from other worlds will be visiting it. Usually the MagicalLand is AnotherDimension or [[TimeTravel time period]] of some sort, but it can also be a mysterious "unexplored territory", uncharted island, or LostWorld, which is more common the farther you go back. ([[ScienceMarchesOn Geography marches on.]])

LandOfFaerie is a sub trope of MagicalLand.

Contrast this with ConstructedWorld which does not have visitors or a gateway from our world.

* Contain {{magic|AndPowers}}.

* Lack any technology beyond [[PublicDomainArtifact 1923]], if they even got that far, [[MedievalStasis even if thousands of years pass throughout its history]].

Vulnerable to {{Planetville}}-ism. The world's version of natural laws are usually the MagicalUnderpinningsOfReality.

The KingInTheMountain may be sleeping here. (Not necessarily under a mountain.) The rare democracy that falls under this trope will be CrystalSpiresAndTogas.

If it's ''really'' magical, it may be {{Wackyland}}. See also TrappedInAnotherWorld.

* The Unknown in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWorld''.

* ''Film/TheNeverendingStory''