House on the Rock, Spring Green, Wisconsin

Steven Dutch, Professor Emeritus, Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

	House on the Rock is one of the world's premier collections of schlock. If you can't find something here to amuse you, report to the undertaker. Below: huge oriental urns along the entrance road.


Above: overlooking the Japanese gardens	Below: Exhibits in the visitor center

The House




	The Infinity Room is the most famous section of the house. It cantilevers out over the valley and tapers to a point, creating the illusion of infinite length. And for people with acrophobia, it probably seems infinitely long as well.
	Reputedly, the House was built as a deliberate insult to Frank Lloyd Wright, whose center at Taliesin is only a few miles away. Left and below: Views from the Infinity Room.



Some really odd firearms. Those pistols look inspired by old Warner Brothers cartoons.

	Left and above: Faberge eggs Below: Replica of an old-time main street.

	A nautical section houses model ships along a ramp that spirals around a huge diorama of a whale battling a giant squid. Because nothing says "landlocked Midwestern State" like a whale battling a giant squid.











	Left: Monitor and Merrimac Below: Christmas villages in an alcove at the top of the Nautical ramp. Because why not?