Saturday, March 29, 2014

House on the Rock


Visited House on the Rock in Wisconsin.  Interesting collection of a bit of everything.  Didn't get to see it all and plan on going back later.  Very interesting and worth checking out. 


 Lots of ships and plane models.


 Old style music boxes

 Old fire engine




 Steam calliope.  They have a huge collection of calliopes.

 Spear launcher
 Scrimshaw turtle shell and ivory
 Titanic model


 Huge whale being attached by a squid while eating a whaling boat.  The thing was huge!


 The squids head.

 Don't know what these are, but they looked cool!






 More player calliope.  All these are working calliopes and you can put in your 50 cents and watch them play.







 Steam engine hearse



 Yet more calliopes




 Largest carousel in the world.  It has no horses on it though. 269 animals, 182 chandeliers, and over 20,000 lights.




 Civil War era mortar

 WWI era gun

 Bridge over the Mississippi River
 Dam on the river