House on the Rock: A Journey into a World of Fantasy and Gigantic Automata (Part 2) 🏰🎶
Part two of the Wisconsin odyssey: giant 200-foot sea monsters, the world's largest indoor carousel with hundreds of mythical creatures, and self-playing mechanical orchestras.
Continuing deeper into The House on the Rock complex, you leave residential architecture behind and enter a labyrinth of monumental, dreamlike exhibition halls.
The colossal sea monster and the world's largest carousel
You turn a corner and suddenly face a titanic 200-foot sea creature battling a giant octopus. In the next room stands the World's Largest Carousel, adorned with 20,000 lights, hundreds of handcrafted angels, unicorns, and mythical beasts — without a single conventional horse.
Automated mechanical orchestras
Entire symphony orchestras composed of antique self-playing violins, harps, and brass instruments play classical melodies automatically as you walk by. It is a sensory feast of imagination and boundless creative obsession.
Wioletta Wójcicka-Sroka