The Ultimate Travel Bucket List Experiences Around the World for Every Harry Potter Fan

Pack your cloaks and hop on your broomsticks, Potterheads! We’re going on a magical adventure in the best places to visit and experience the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

Lucky for you, we’ve sorted and chosen the ones you should visit around the world to tick off your Harry Potter Travel Bucket List:

Kicking off this Potterhead travel bucket list is a studio tour in the very home of The Chosen One himself—Warner Bros. Studio Tour London! 

Experience the magical world of Harry Potter on this full-day tour as you walk through the streets of Diagon Alley and other locations where the Harry Potter films actually took place! Get to know more interesting facts and behind the scenes of the movies as you tour Hogwarts Castle through interactive displays. Even without floo powder, you can travel around the studio aboard a Knight Bus, where you can even watch the Harry Potter films!

If you’re travelling to the US, you miss out on the Warner Bros. Studios Tour Hollywood in LA if you’re a Potterhead. This three-hour tour takes you to the world of wizards and witches by exploring the franchise’s filming sets and soundstages. You can even experience being an actual Hogwarts student and learn magical potion-making and wand lessons. Learn how to swish and flick from wand choreographer Paul Harris (so you don’t take someone’s eye out)!

If potion-making is on your bucket list, then consider it done by going on this magical Harry Potter tour!

Another Hollywood stop for Harry Potter fans is at Universal Studios Hollywood! Immerse yourself in  Harry Potter’s world of magic through the walls of Hogwarts Castle, where you can visit Dumbledore’s Office, the Gryffindor Common Room, and more! You can even see how a wand chooses a wizard at its finest makers in the Wizarding World—Ollivander’s!

If you’re in for an adventure, try this theme park’s Flight of the Hippogriff and ride overhead Hagrid’s Hut. You’ll be able to even hear Fang barking!

Universal Orlando Resort brings you the enchanting world of Harry Potter where you can explore one or both of these two parks: Universal’s Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios Florida, with each offering different adventures into the Harry Potter world. Kids will definitely have the time of their lives in thrilling rides in Islands of Adventure, while Universal Studios Florida offers a closer look into the behind-the-scenes of the movies. But not to worry, Potterheads, you can visit both parks through its very own train: the Hogwarts Express! 

Make sure to stop by Honeydukes, the famed Harry Potter store in Hogsmeade village, to get the sweetest and most magical treats from this tour!

Take your Harry Potter travel bucket list to Asia and stop by Universal Studios Japan! Apart from must-visit places like Hogwarts Castle, Hogsmeade, and Diagon Alley, Osaka’s version of the Wizarding World features the iconic Forbidden Journey ride—a flight simulator wherein you can tour Hogwarts on an enchanted bench!

Get on a thrilling spellbinding adventure into Universal Studios Japan’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter!

Wrapping up this Harry Potter travel bucket list with a magical experience in our very own city of Melbourne. The Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play takes place 19 years after our favourite trio—Harry, Ron, and Hermione—saved the Wizarding World. This play, however, puts the spotlight on their children’s adventure against the Dark Arts.

Playing at Melbourne’s Patricia Theatre, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will surely make the magic of the Harry Potter world live on.