Yesterday Megan and I spent the day at House on the Rock. It’s this property in Southwestern Wisconsin that was previously home to an incredibly eccentric collector, Alex Jordan. The home/museum is built on the edge of a cliff, and there’s even a hallway extension he had built that protrudes off the house without any support to the ground called the infinity room (pictured above). It’s scary but fantastic. I walked about halfway down before I turned around to go back because my feet wouldn’t stop sweating. It sways and creeks in the wind, although it’s supposedly the sturdiest part of the house (lots of redundant i-beams, and such).We spent about 3 hours at the house, staring at all the peculiar stuff he owned. Photos, documents, model ships, guns, cars, boats, engines, a life-size replica of a blue whale, medical tools, cameras. Priceless items like blueprints to the Titanic. There are about 20 machine-operated orchestras that play for $0.50. Any one collection would have been amazing in a room by itself, it was overwhelming.
Rich, crazy people whose houses become museums when they die are awesome.
