What classic fantasy place would you not want to go to? And why?

Carprona the land in Edgar rice Burroughs Caspack trilogy of novels. The Land That Time Forgot, The People that Time Forgot, Out of Time Abyss . Inhabited by every prehistoric species monster that ever existed, Plus hostile tribes of proto humans, humans and a race of winged overlords who rule over the the Island. It's really not a fun place at all. :eek:

Yeah, but OTOH they did have a lot of hot babes running round in scanty fur loincloths, judging from the covers anyway.
 
I think that either Melnibone or Pan Tang would be rather unhealthy and unpleasant places to visit. From SF, my most unfavourite place would probably be Giedi Prime.
 
I have to say I never envied Arthur Dent from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Earth suddenly destroyed, and then stuck having to brown-nose Vogons on their poetry or be jettisoned into space...
 
"Qartoth, darkest of the dark worlds" according to Sah'jan from Angel. Connor grew up there.

It was a terrible movie but had some intrigueing visuals. Skyline.
Has a brief scene at the end of the movie showing an empty earth. All of it's people being collected inside the alien ships. Then a shot of the inside of the ships showing the humans screaming and crying as they're waiting to get their brains harvested. No escape. No mercy. No hope.

....Except for the plucky hero who's harvested brain takes control of a robot during the end credits.
 
A scary land with beautiful woman. :D

I'm pretty sure that most scary lands have beautiful women -- there seems to be some sort of correlation there, that probably ought to be looked into (there may be a Ph.D. thesis in it for some enterprising grad student...maybe I should go back to school...)
 
I have to say I never envied Arthur Dent from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Earth suddenly destroyed, and then stuck having to brown-nose Vogons on their poetry or be jettisoned into space...

But at least jettisoning would be a palatable alternative, all things considered...
 
The UK in the Children of Men. While I'm all for survivalist escapism, these tend to include some hope for the future. So a place in which there is none, with the collapse of hope and meaning seems like a pretty unpleasant place to be. (This makes me sound like I think reproduction = hope and meaning, but I'm referring more to the societal perspective, rather than my own)

Also Dante's levels of hell seemed far too sociable for me :)
 
Personally, I'd like to visit the City of the Singing Flame, by Clark Ashton Smith. In fact, any world from the eponymous book published by Timescape would be a cool visit, what with its weird planets and strange folk (come on, a temple of holy prostitutes with gem-encrusted golden girdles has to get your inner-anthropologist/adventurer excited!). But the City itself would be enough, since its a cosmopolitan state of many alien dimensions with their own customs. That, and there's the Singing Flame itself, which sounds like a real trip to be enraptured experience.
 
Personally, I'd like to visit the City of the Singing Flame, by Clark Ashton Smith. In fact, any world from the eponymous book published by Timescape would be a cool visit, what with its weird planets and strange folk (come on, a temple of holy prostitutes with gem-encrusted golden girdles has to get your inner-anthropologist/adventurer excited!). But the City itself would be enough, since its a cosmopolitan state of many alien dimensions with their own customs. That, and there's the Singing Flame itself, which sounds like a real trip to be enraptured experience.

It's one the finest fantasy short stories of all time . (y)
 
Stygia in Hyborian world of Conan. Not fun place at all. :eek:
 
The Land, from the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. Because I might meet Thomas Covenant.
 

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