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First Exhibit This boat was in the men's bathroom on the way in. I thought it was neat, but I didn't know what awaited us... |
Library Lots of books. I believe they were first editions. I don't really know much more than that... |
External Garden There are various sculptures and such down there. Again, I thought this was novel. |
Main House - Chimes The main house area was fairly short, and full of odd instruments and such. But it was still recognizable as a house. |
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Stained Glass Still in the main house; at the least, these shots turned out well. |
Kitchen Area I'm not sure why the stove was so near a couch, but whatever works... |
Infinity Room - Entrance I wasn't really sure what to expect from the Infinity Room. |
Infinity Room This was it. A long, narrow room looking out over a tall cliff. |
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Infinity Room, End You couldn't go past there, and that's okay. |
Infinity Room, Schematic This is what we were doing out there. Wow. |
First Playable Music Machine There were a lot of these in the museum, not so many in the House proper. |
Music Machine, Internals Everything played; it was a neat piece of equipment. |
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Stone Head After a while, I wasn't even sure what everything was. |
More Stained Glass I like stained glass, if you hadn't guessed. |
Stained Glass Dragon This one should be impressive to everyone. |
Eggs I don't think that the Fabragé egg was in here, but these stone ones were still quite neat. |
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External View A view from the walk back into the house. |
External View, II The view was neat enough on its own. |
External View, III But there was plenty of more stuff to see... |
Jacob and Tim In front of more stained glass. Beth was just happt to have the camera briefly. |
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Beth In front of the same stained glass. We liked that glass. |
Stained Glass Table/Lamp I'd be too afraid of breaking it... who am I kidding, this is one of the first things I saw that I'd want. (Save the books.) |
The Legend You might be able to pick out the story of the House on the Rock here. I'm disappointed with the flash, though... |
Reading the Legend We spent a while reading this before moving on. |
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Crocodile Sculpture This is the next thing that I would want. |
Entrance to the Museum The copper door was pretty neat. |
Antechamber The spherical crystal things on the table were the first major "exhibit" of the museum proper. |
Many-Chambered Guns The first collection of the museum: guns! |
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Cannons and Harpoons Well, more than just guns. |
Old Toys I don't know how to properly describe these things. |
Fabragé Egg The most expensive thing in the museum, by volume, probably... |
Sleeping Dog In one of the houses in the Old Model Street. |
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Hand in a Jar And a head, too. I guess this was supposed to be the Old West? |
Crystal Various crystal stuff. I can't help but think that some of this is spares for other areas. |
Large Calliope Today's realization: 'calliope' is hard to type. |
Another Large Music-Maker There's people standing next to it for scale, too. And this is nothing. Nothing! |
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Model Ship This was the first model ship I'd seen since the bathroom, so I took a picture. Foolish me... |
Whale and Squid Battle The centerpiece of the whole museum was this four-story tall sculpture of a Whale and Giant Squid battling. |
Boat in the Whale's Mouth Oh, and there's a standard rowboat inside the whale's mouth, too. |
Giant Whale The whale is so giant that you can just barely see its teeth from here. |
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Giant Squid Eye Look at the size of that thing! |
Birds Flying Above To improve the scene, birds were added flying above the whale's tail... |
Whale Tail It's hard to get over the scale. |
Whale Mouth I never did get a wonderful shot of the whole thing; my lens wasn't good enough for it. |
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Whale Eye But at least I got a few key details. |
Poster about the Whale At least the text is legible with this one. |
Octopus Garden This wasn't quite so violent as the other one. It did make more noise. |
Deer These looked fairly real, I was impressed. |
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Beaver Of course, it's kindof odd to have a collection of woodland creatures... |
Circus Miniatures I hadn't even really considered the existance of stuff like this, but here we are! Another bunch of random stuff. |
Lighters This I liked; it's a collection I could get behind. |
Model Ships If I was cooler, I could probably identify the ships. |
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Model Ships, II But I'm not, and I can't, so I'm stuck with being able to say "pre-1800" and such. |
Model Ships, III These are smaller. That's some detail, I guess. |
Polar Bears And in the middle of the ships...a family of polar bears! Cute! |
USS Wisconsin At least I can recognize this one. |
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USS Wisconsin, II Of course, that's because it was labelled in this picture. I'm a cheater. |
USS Wisconsin, III The scale of the ship is pretty impressive. |
Model Ships, IV Back to not being able to get a name! |
Model Ships, V They're cool to look at anyway, though, even without any real details. |
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Model Ships, VI This was a Japanese battleship of some sort. |
Model Ships, VII One thing I can say: these things surrounded the whale and squid battle. |
Model Ships, VIII It was a spiral walkway going around the battle, with ships all along the side... |
Model Ships, IX This might have been the Titanic. |
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Model Ships, X The rigging alone is so intricate. |
Mastpiece I don't remember the actual name of the sculptures on the front of a ship! Grr! |
Titanic Memoribilia Fun fact: my friend Jane's father was evacuated from the Titanic. |
Model Ships, XI I couldn't stop taking pictures of these things... but this was the last one. |
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Kites An interesting collection of kites. |
Balloons Stuck to the ceiling, but still neat-looking. |
Old HotTub in Limo As part of the car collection, there was one of my favorite silly ideas. |
Eagle Car I wish I could identify these things. |
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Poetry Describing the point of the House. Sortof. (There's lots of 'sortof's in this place.) |
Rube Goldberg Plaque More cool stuff. Rube Goldberg machines always interest me... |
Rube Goldberg Machine, I From what I got on film, the cat pulls the string, causing... |
Rube Goldberg Machine, II ...the boot to kick the pig, which kicks back and makes the mechanism... |
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Rube Goldberg Machine, III ...punch with the boxing glove, makin the chicken lay the egg, which is counted by the egg counter, which presses a button, causing... |
Rube Goldberg Machine, IV ...some gears to run, and the violin to play. There was more to it than that, but I didn't get enough pictures. Curse my limited memory card size! |
Trailer O'Elephants That's a lot of elephants. |
Burma Shave Signs This was the item I wanted the *most* out of the tour. |
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Burma Shave Signs, II Burma Shave signs were just so incredibly cool. |
Burma Shave Signs, III Old viral marketing. |
Burma Shave Signs, IV Hint for gift ideas for me: buy me a few sets of signs! |
Trailer O'Elephants, Close-Up A better view of the elephants. That's still a lot of 'em. |
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Spilled Root Beer Float We stopped for ice cream in the middle. Jacob them dropped his immediately. Poor Jacob. |
Hungry Patron Luckily, there was somebody willing to clean it up. |
Preserved Rose In some kind of vacuum, I guess. |
Musical Gnomes They didn't actually play music, for once. |
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Absinthe House Beth wanted me to take a picture of this. I won't let her drink absinthe, you see... |
Back to Stained Glass It had been a while! |
Colored Stone Art Another item that's hard to describe. |
Clockwork Music Player The mechanisms are cool. The music was pretty nice, too. |
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Plate Collection Wow. I wouldn't want any of these. |
Largest Music Maker Vaguely Japanese, this took up a *large* room. |
Ivory Sculpture Gorgeous, expensive, vaguely evil. |
Hamm's Preferred Stock Beer Okay. It's an interesting poster. |
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Sword Collection More things I'd be okay owning. These are cool. |
Organ-Like Room More huge instruments. I think they're organs, mostly... |
Model Airplanes A lot of 'em, and neat looking ones too. I need more stuff that hangs from the ceiling. |
Important Newspapers Pearl Harbor, and Hiroshima. Those were really neat papers to read. |
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Winged Ceiling Angels And so we entered the carousel room! |
The Carousel This is apparently the largest carousel in the world. It was certainly well-lit... |
Carousel Placard "Interesting Facts About the Largest Carousel In History". Whee. |
Firefly My love of the show shines through. |
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More Carousel This thing was quite worthy of lots of pictures. |
Seahorse Carousel Animals Right behind the mermen and mermaids. |
Loads of Angels So many flying women! They obviously collide a lot. |
Angel with Violin Topless, too. I wonder if this makes my page R-rated? |
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Being Eaten by a Monster Off to see more of the museum! |
Evil Whisky Bottle Moonshine, actually. They were meant to show the evils of alcohol. |
Lots of Evil Bottles These might have actually been used, though, which is a bit different. |
Odd Light Mechanism I think I have some better shots of this later. |
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Spiral of Hammer Chimes It's hard to tell what this even is; but you could tell that it could make noise, eventually. |
Church Bells All lined up by size. |
Odd Light Mechanism, II This is somewhat better, anyway. I don't know what it's purpose was, though. |
Odd Light Mechanism, III At least this time you can kindof see the light itself. |
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Huge Organ That's a lot of buttons to press... |
Huge Organ, II This one seems somehow better laid-out. |
Drums Drums, up in the sky. |
Odd Light Mechanism, IV It still looks odd, but I think this is the best shot I got. |
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Odd Light Mechanism, V Closer-up on the individual lights. |
More Chimes I think this the bottom of the same mechanism I got a shot of before. |
Large Clock With lions in front. I'm sure that means something. |
Wolf Head Another random item just sitting around the percussion room. |
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Circuit Boards These date the whole place, but they're still neat looking. |
Old Piano Machine I think it's more than just a piano, but still. |
Interesting Flagon Is this the brew that is true? |
Knight Battle Sculpture With the armored horses. Hmm. |
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Dolls on the Carousel This carousel was in some ways neater than the bigger one. (Or was it part of the same one?) |
Samara From The Ring. Or at least, she looked like it. |
Samara It wouldn't be quite as creepy a shot if the shadows didn't work out so well with the light... |
Doll Houses There were a lot of these things. More than there were model boats... |
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Tiny Bathroom For the doll houses, I believe. But I like the not-to-scale horse. |
Doll Houses, II These things were really intricate. I've seen a few of this quality before in my life, but not in one place... |
Doll Houses vs Godzilla-Doll "She's going to destroy us all!" |
Doll Houses, III I don't really know what to say about all of these. |
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Doll Houses, IV At least I don't feel so guilty about not being able to identify them. |
Little Mouse Poop It seemed appropriate to take pictures of the soiled bathtub. |
Circus Miniatures Will the hideous Frog Girl make an appearance? |
Model Circus That's a lot of pieces... |
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Model Circus, II ...and that's even more. Wow. |
Model Circus, III The scale of the effort put into this was staggering. |
Model Circus, IV It wasn't as overwhelming as the Whale/Squid sculpture, but it was close. |
Model Circus, V Heh, the dressing tent... |
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Model Circus, VI This time, there's elephants! |
Model Circus, VII More elephants, and people too. These were closer to life-sized. |
Circus Boat Did these exist? I guess so, if they made models of them. |
Ringling Bros. Poster This looks like something that my Dad *does* have. So I liked it more than most. |
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Circus Calliope A combination of many things from all through the museum. It was certainly big. |
Circus Calliope, II Again, it's just a huge display. |
Circus Calliope, III The music was more interesting from here than most, at least. |
Clockwork Scenes I was fond of these odd things. |
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Clockwork Scenes, II A marching chariot? |
Alice in Wonderland There were actually two of these. |
Clockwork Orchestra This was the neatest of the music makers. |
Swords and Guns And now, back to weapons! |
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Axes Definitely an interesting, and nice, set. |
Pistol Blades You mean those things in Final Fantasy VIII were real? |
More Carved Ivory I doubt these are even legal to make anymore. |
Carved Ivory Chess Set I like the chopped-in-half board. |
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Even More Carved Ivory And it's the most intricate of the set. |
Another Carved Tusk It's depressing to think of the dead elephant. |
Crowns I don't know *how* this one came about. |
Knight Battle That's a dog in armor on the left there. |
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Dog in Armor See? A dog! (I think.) |
More Armor The Dungeons and Dragons geek in me loves this stuff. |
Royal Stuff Tiaras and the like. |
Royal Weapons I want a Battle Sceptre! |
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Royal Knick-Knacks Maybe it's jewelry, I don't know. |
Buckingham Palace Model This still fit the theme, but fit the doll house theme too. |
Odd Cathedral I'm sure it's a specific cathedral, but I don't recognize it as such. |
Last Bits of Carousel They just keep coming! Aaah! |
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Tired Jacob and Beth We'd been wandering this place for nearly three hours by this point, so we were fairly understandably tired. |
Riding the Carousel The dolls are now actually on the animals. It's a change. |
Riding the Carousel, II They were close enough to actually get some good shots this time, though. |
Riding the Carousel, III Why is that doll riding a bishop? |
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Naked Carousel Ladies These somehow fascinated me. |
Naked Carousel Ladies, II They must have saved these for the end, to traumatize people when it was most (or least) effective. |
Naked Carousel Ladies, III What do you think? |
Naked Carousel Ladies, IV Would people be desensitized by the time they got to the end, or most apt to say "that's it!" and go complain? |
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Naked Carousel Ladies, V I'm guessing it's the former... |
Final Model Houses A few more had to be shown on the way out. |
Spare Carousel Horses These were just the spares! Good Gods! |
Spare Carousel Horses, II I guess it just shows the scale of everything... |
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Moving Carousel I think that the lack of flash here actually paid off. |
Final Angels I had to get a couple more shots of these things, with the carousel in the background. |
Final Angels, II Besides, it offered a good crossover... |
Stuffed Coyote There were still a few sights to see outsie of the main museum. |
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Modern Phones This whole collection, for instance, was stored out next to the gift shops. |
More Modern Phones I'm a Mario, I'ma gonna ring! |
Darth Vader Phone I'd be afraid to answer that one. |
Wolverine Phone Aww, from the time when Wolverine was cute and marketable! |
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Chocolate Taffy Pull Our last stop before leaving was the chocolate area. |
Chocolate Poster At least they had some good chocolate mints... and this poster was kinda neat. |
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