The Forest of Magic is a focal point for all things evil, ominous, and repulsive. It's a place whose true nature is clouded by strange rumours and weird happenstance. Once you look beyond the human-eating plants and inevitable, horrible misfortune that will surely befall all who even think of trespassing into the forest, it's also a fairly nice place to live for people who don't like to be disturbed.
Marisa's house of doom, storage, and generally odd things is located somewhere within the forest. Alice's house of dolls is also there. Rounding out the main attractions is Rinnosuke's shop of odds and ends.