A Collection of Magical Places.

You know that feeling, the feeling you had as a kid in a science museum, that feeling I still get in the Natural History Museum, where you are compleatly transported to another place, where you feel encompassed by a kind of magical awe. Well, it can be a tough feeling to come by, so I thought I would post about some of the most magical places I know about. Place Number One:

THE HOUSE ON THE ROCK

This might be the most magical place I have ever been. Built originally as a fuck you to Frank Lloyd Wright it is a massive endless sort of lowbrow museum. From Wikipedia "Both of Jordan's biographers relate a story told by Sid Boyum, which places the inspiration for the house in an meeting between Alex Jordan Sr. and Frank Lloyd Wright, at some unspecified time apparently between 1914 and 1923. Jordan Sr. drove with Boyum to Taliesin to show Wright the plans for a building, the Villa Maria in Madison, which Jordan had designed. Jordan worshipped the famous architect and hoped for his approval. Wright looked at the plans and told Jordan "I wouldn't hire you to design a cheese crate or a chicken coop. You're not capable." Fuming, on the drive back on Highway 23, Jordan pointed to a spire of rock and told Boyum "I'm going to put up a Japanese house on one of those pinnacle rocks and advertise it." Nothing is better then revenge building.

To describe the magnificance of the house is near impossible. First off you know that now infamous Squid and Whale fighting in the Natural History Museum? The House on the rock has that but 200 feet long. It also has the world's largest working carousel, in addition to a pricless collection of automated music machines. You can easily spend 8 hours wandering around in the sprawling house and not see everything and not want to stop. Thats why its at the top of my most magical places I have ever been. If for any reason, you are ever anywhere in Wisconsin, it is absolutly worth the trip.