Places inlandempirical Wants to Go

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.