Wow . So I visited the House on the Rock in Spring Green , Wis. , this weekend and it was easily the most frightening place I ’ve ever been . And I only catch part of it . I guess I do n’t lie with what I was expecting " ¦ Spring Green is the family of Frank Lloyd Wright ’s Taliesin , so I opine I was thinking of something more along those lines " “ a really architecturally interesting house . And I guess it was . But the computer architecture is overtake by the tremendous , flaky assemblage of crap within its bulwark . My champion Mikaela described it as " a garage sales event sustain by mental patients . " It ’s a pretty fair assessment , except the stuff and nonsense is n’t for sales event .
This is a hard article to write because it ’s difficult to describe on the button how frightful , creepy and bizarre this place is . I can tell you all I want and be as descriptive as humanly possible and show you any bit of pictures , and still it ’s not locomote to adequately portray the Creepy . But I will test .
First of all , you’re able to take Tour 1 , Tour 2 , or the whole experience . We opted for Tour 1 because it stop " The Infinity Room " and we had been tell this was not a room to miss . For your reference , though , Tour two contains the Music of Yesterday , the Spirit of Aviation , the World ’s Largest Carousel , the Organ Room , Inspiration Point and the Doll Carousels . Holy Crap , am I happy we pick Tour 1 , because the Doll Carousels would have pit me for spirit .
I ’ll combine the prescribed descriptions with my description " ¦ I bet you may pick out which is which .
House on the Rock : House on the Rock sit atop a 60 - foot chimney of tilt called Deer Shelter Rock . It opened in 1960 , where it has been terrifying the unsuspecting public ever since . This part of the theater feels like a hobbit - cakehole - imagine stone ledges made into couches " ¦ couch upholstered in shag carpeting . furnishing include oriental art , stained glass , bronze statuary , numerous Bauer and Coble lamps and a three - history bookcase filled with rare record . They do n’t warn you about instruments that play eery tunes all by themselves and the random statues strategically post to scare the crap out of you when you flesh out a recess . The Infinity Room , the 14th room of the house , open in 1985 . This unique elbow room project out over the Wyoming Valley 218 feet and contains 3,264 windows . This elbow room was coolheaded until my friend Courtney stick out out at the far end and made the whole matter shake . I almost peed my pants . The top is the interior and the bottom is what it looks like from the exterior .
The Gate House and the Mill House : Opening in 1961 and 1968 respectively , you will see all kinds of random dogshit in these wing of the house , let in antique guns , wench , mechanical banks , suits of armor and an enormous fireplace . mark the giant bawl used as a display for an extensive paperweight collection . For your convenience , restrooms are located in this sphere . This is the restroom and my friend Lisa :
Oh , and this little gemstone was really disturbing . There are all kinds of machines that necessitate you to inclose a token to get them to work . We inserted a item into this machine called something like " The Death of a Drunkard " and this is what happened " “ first the drunk guy dying in bed raises his arms like a zombie spirit . Then death pops up from behind the bottom doing his well " TOUCHDOWN ! " pose . Then a skeleton uncover that he ’s been cover in the granddaddy clock . Finally , we see that the drunkard ’s closet is actually a gateway to hell and the Devil arrives to attract him down into it . OH MY GOD .
You will notice the lighting is dim in this country as it limn an evening setting and casts everything in an extra - eerie lighting . As you go through this section , please view both sides of the way until you get to the Gladiator Calliope , the first of many large Music Machines . Once you get there , you will exit this expanse to your left hand and enter theHeritage of the Sea . If you have n’t visited the wash room yet , we hint you do so , because if your intestine are full when you come in the Heritage of the Sea , you will crap your pants .
TheHeritage of the Seaopened in 1990 . As you enter this area , your eyes are drawn to the 200 ft sea animal that is engaged in a titanic battle with an tremendous devilfish . Yes , you read that right wing , a " 200 ft sea creature engaged in a titanic struggle with an enormous octopus " . It ’s really pretty impossible to get a picture of the titanic struggle , but believe me , I tried . I have an abnormal amount of pictures of this battle on my photographic camera decently now .
The prissy matter is that you follow a twine path up to the top of the building , so eventually you find yourself mighty in front of the lip of the ocean monster ! Neat ! !
That concludes Tour 1 . give thanks God . By this tip , we had witnessed so many foreign things and been inundated by eldritch euphony and randomness , we were fairly much silent . Courtney was actually sick to her stomach . I call up I developed a concern just writing about this . I should believably go lie down now . But before I go , countenance ’s hear from you . Have you been to the House on the Rock ? Am I misconceive its genius ? Or were you just as traumatized as I was ? Should you feel the need to further deluge yourself with scary pictures , you may visitmy blogor check outthese pictures .
Previously onmental_floss…
" ¢ Stacy ’s visits toThe Corn Palace , The Grassy Knoll , The Texas State FairandThe Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast"¢ Jason ’s trips toOld Faithful(notthatOld Faithful ) andUtah"¢ Ransom ’s honeymoon inPortugal
