Enchanted Earth: Real-Life Places That Feel Like Fantasy by DK Travel

Enchanted Earth is a big, photographic gift book from DK, collecting real places around the world that look like they belong in a fantasy novel. It is made for the romantasy and fantasy crowd, the sort of reader who wishes they could step into a fae kingdom or a bewitched forest.

The photographs are grouped into six realms that echo the settings of fantasy storytelling: Magical (lakeside villages, rolling hills, palaces), Celestial (aurora, starry skies, glowing water), Frozen (snow cabins and ice caves), Fiery (volcanoes and deserts), Desolate (windswept, abandoned places) and Shadow (dark forests, old libraries, brooding castles). Alongside famous spots like Hohenzollern Castle and the Livraria Lello bookshop are plenty of lesser-known ones.

It is a large-format hardback with a gold foil cover, gilded edges, a ribbon marker and thick glossy pages, so it works as a coffee-table book and a gift. For fans of fairytales, gothic fantasy and romantasy.