9 celebrity homes you can actually go inside and visit in real life
Talia Lakritz
- Frank Sinatra's former Palm Springs home costs $3,700 per night on Airbnb.
- The former homes of Judy Garland, Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong, and Johnny Cash are now museums.
You can rent Frank Sinatra's former Palm Springs home on Airbnb for $3,700 per night.
The four-bedroom, six-and-a-half bathroom house was built in 1947 for Sinatra and his first wife, Nancy Barbato. In addition to pieces of memorabilia from Sinatra's career, the home also features his original recording studio, though it's no longer functional, according to the Airbnb listing.
Johnny Cash's childhood home in Dyess, Arkansas, offers guided tours.
The Cash family moved to the small ranch-style home in Dyess Colony, a settlement established by the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration to bolster the local economy, in 1934. Johnny Cash lived there from his birth until his graduation from high school in 1950, according to the museum's website.
Regular adult admission to the museum costs $20.
Graceland, the 13.8-acre estate in Memphis, Tennessee, that Elvis Presley once owned, has operated as a museum since 1982.
Presley lived in the two-story mansion from 1957 until his death in 1977, according to the official Graceland website. Built in 1939, it has eight bedrooms and four bathrooms and spans 17,552 square feet, Insider's Amanda Goh reported.
The second floor remains off-limits, but visitors can walk through the living room, dining room, the TV room, and the famous Jungle Room with Polynesian-inspired furniture and a working waterfall on the first floor.
Adult admission to Graceland starts at $48.
Dolly Parton's Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, features a replica of her childhood home.
Parton grew up in a two-room log cabin with her parents and 11 siblings in Sevierville, Tennessee, just under 6 miles from where Dollywood is located today.
The cabin had no electricity or running water, but Parton remembered her years there fondly in her 1973 song "My Tennessee Mountain Home."
Parton's brother Bobby built the Dollywood replica, and her mother, Avie Lee, designed and furnished the interior.
Admission to the Dollywood theme park costs $89 for one adult ticket.
Paisley Park, Prince's former home and studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota, is now a museum and event venue.
Prince sang about an imagined sanctuary that could provide "profound inner peace" in his 1985 song "Paisley Park." Construction on the real Paisley Park began that same year and was completed in 1987, according to its official website.
It's unknown exactly when Prince began living at the 65,000-square-foot estate, but it's where he spent his last years before his death at 57 in 2016, The New Yorker reported.
Today, Paisley Park serves as a concert space, soundstage, museum, and recording studio used by artists such as Madonna, Stevie Wonder, and Lizzo.
Tickets range from $48 to $160.
Visitors to Judy Garland's childhood home in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, can view artifacts like a pair of ruby slippers she wore as Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz."
There are only four known remaining pairs of original ruby slippers from the production of "The Wizard of Oz" in existence. One of them is on display at the Judy Garland Museum, which opened in 1975. In 2005, the ruby slippers were stolen from the museum. The FBI recovered them in a sting operation 13 years later in 2018.
Garland, who was born in 1922, lived at the home until she was 4 years old, when the family left Grand Rapids and moved to Los Angeles, Architectural Digest reported. Subsequent buyers moved the home twice, and it's been in its current location since the '90s. It opened as a museum in 2003.
One adult ticket to the museum costs $12.
The interior of Paul McCartney's childhood home in Liverpool is only accessible via tours booked through the National Trust, a UK charity that preserves historic places.
Iconic Beatles songs such as "I Saw Her Standing There" and "When I'm 64" were written in McCartney's modest home at 20 Forthlin Road.
According to the National Trust website, tours cost £11 (around $13) for National Trust members and £32 (around $38) for non-members.
Tours of John Lennon's childhood home are also available through the National Trust.
Located at 251 Menlove Avenue in Liverpool, the house was known as Mendips after the Mendip Hills in Somerset, according to The New York Times. Lennon moved there when he was 5 years old after his parents separated in 1946, living with his aunt Mimi and her husband, George, until 1963.
The National Trust tour visits both McCartney's and Lennon's homes.
Louis Armstrong's former home in Queens, New York, is now a museum dedicated to his legacy.
The Louis Armstrong Home Museum contains recordings, photos, instruments, letters, awards, and other pieces of memorabilia from Armstrong's illustrious jazz career.
He lived there from 1943 until his death in 1971. His wife, Lucille, willed their home to the city of New York before she died in 1983, according to the museum's website. It opened to the public in 2003.
Adult admission costs $15.
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