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The House on the Rock, Wisconsin

Cultural Full day difficulty: Moderate with kids: yes
The House on the Rock, Wisconsin

An impossible house built atop a column of rock in the Wisconsin countryside, full of ever more outlandish rooms: a room that flies over the valley, orchestras that play by themselves, and the largest indoor carousel in the world, with thousands of lights and not a single horse figure.

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Neil Gaiman chose this strange place for a key scene of his novel «American Gods», and it's no wonder: the house looks like a dream made of impossible rooms. The giant carousel inside, with thousands of lights, really is the largest indoor one in the world.

With kids

  • Peer into the room that flies over the valley with nothing below
  • Watch the largest indoor carousel in the world spin
  • Listen to the music machines that play all by themselves
  • Get lost among the house's ever stranger rooms
Accessibility: 8+; the tour is long and a bit overwhelming, it's so enormous

With family

  • Take your time through a house that looks like an impossible dream
  • Discover the scene a famous writer set here
  • Compare which room each person found most incredible
  • Learn how a single man built such an oddity

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