House on the Rock

Most visitors to The House on the Rock fixate on its star attraction, the World’s Largest Carousel, which features prominently in Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods. It’s a pretty awe-inspiring carousel, I have to say.

carousel

But the really special thing about The House on the Rock is Alex Jordan’s imaginative collection of industrial salvage, which creates a sort of steampunk magical vibe reminiscent of the fairy world in Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy 2. Consider the Organ room, for example, which mixes old mechanical musical instruments:

music instruments

Pipe organs and Clockpunk artwork:

lanterns

And old distilling equipment.

house on rock

Delightfully surreal!