What's on the other side of your portal?

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One of my favorite books is The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. If you've read it or seen the movies, you know that four children fall through the back of a wardrobe and end up in Narnia - a very different world from the English countryside. The children have many adventures in Narnia. It's much more pleasant than the world that Alice falls into when she runs after that rabbit. Maybe it's just me, but I always found Alice in Wonderland to be a little creepy. There's always a sinister undertone. Dorothy Gale travels via tornado and lands in Oz. She meets many wonderful friends but she also has a rather evil witch following her everywhere. Falling into other worlds happens all the time in fiction and in the movies. It's a way of taking an average person and setting them down in a very unusual place. We can identify with them as they explore the strange circumstances they find themselves in. I haven't decided yet what my perfect fantasy world would be like, but I do think that chocolate would figure heavily into the design. I think there would be trees with chocolate leaves that you could pick and eat. And nothing would be hard, everything would be pillow soft, so that even if you fell, you couldn't get hurt. And gravity, I would lessen that a bit to make movement a little easier on my creaky joints. What if you had your very own portal, your own wardrobe with a back that opened up into another world. What would be on the other side? What would your alternate world look like? Would you meet new friends or take your old friends with you? Can you talk to the animals?