In a London suburb is a dead-end alley where twice a day a horse-drawn omnibus leaves for the Promised Land. Just make sure you get a return ticket before you leave, or you won't be coming back.
Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. Beam Piper, E. M. Forster, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Dick, Ray Bradbury & Edgar Rice Burroughs