House on the Rocks

Although we have been to the House on the Rocks at least twice before this it was fun going through and seeing everything again. We are camped in Spring Green Wisconsin so it was a short ride to this museum.

The house itself is built into and on top of natural rock formations and then encompasses that rock into the walls in features of the house. The outstanding feature of the house is called an infinity room and it’s built out over the valley, seeming to disappear at the end. 

The museum next to the house seems to go on forever as it took us close to five hours to walk through the whole thing. Some of the amazing features of the museum:  One room with a model of a full size whale battling a giant octopus; a fully reconstructed Victorian town with homes, stores and offices furnished for that era; Musical mechanical orchestras; a carousel with 269 animals (none are horses), 20,000 lights and weighs 36 tons;  two other doll carousels; circus and doll house exhibits and an organ room that has not just organs and pipes but numerous other pieces of “stuff”.   This man was a master collector!