Places inlandempirical Wants to Go

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

An enchanted arts space which assumes infinite identities.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Pasadena glamour turned government issue.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

Home of the "Father of Forestry."

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.