Get Lost in These Real-World Fairy Tale Landscapes

(via Atlas Obscura) Characters and plot are crucial to any story, but key to the appeal of most fairy tales and fantasy books is the setting: the fictional world that the author builds.   Here are 18 dream-like places you can actually visit. They may look like they were ripped straight from the pages of a fairy story, but in many cases, it was more like the other way around.