# Ever Heard of this "Fun House"-Where is it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 30, 2009, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-heard-of-this-fun-house-where-is-it/501465 "2009-06-30T12:17:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-heard-of-this-fun-house-where-is-it/501465/1 "2009-06-30T12:17:03Z")
Years ago, I saw some photos of a park where they had houses with tilted floors, giant windows and doorways, etc. However, the proportions of the rooms., windows, doors, etc. were normal-and the walls were painted with patterns, in such a ways as to cause the tilted floors, walls, etc., to look normal. I wish I had bookmarke the site…anybody know where it is? ---
**Author:** ![Kiber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kiber/32/317_2.png) [@Kiber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiber)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-heard-of-this-fun-house-where-is-it/501465/2 "2009-06-30T12:35:02Z")
I don’t know if this is what you remember - but the [Mystery Spot](http://www.mysteryspotstignace.com/) in Saint Ignace, Michigan sounds similar. It definitely has the weird construction / optical illusion thing going on. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-heard-of-this-fun-house-where-is-it/501465/3 "2009-06-30T13:08:40Z")
The Mystery Spot illusions are [explained here.](http://www.sandlotscience.com/MysterySpots/Mystery_Spots_1.htm) Lots of roadside attractions use these illusions to create ‘mystery spots’: **Confusion Hill Gravity House** , Percy, CA; **[Winchester Mystery House](http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/)**, San Jose, CA; \*\*[The Mystery Spot](http://www.mystery-spot.com/) \*\*Santa Cruz, CA; **[Calico Ghost Town Mystery Shack](http://www.calicotown.com/)**[COLOR=#ffffff], [/COLOR]Yermo, CA; **[Knott’s Berry Farm Haunted Shack](http://www.knotts.com/)**[COLOR=#ffffff], [/COLOR]Buena Park, CA; **[Spook Hill](http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/FLLAKspook.html)**, Lake Wales, FL; **[Mystery Spot](http://www.stignace.com/attractions/mysteryspot/)**[COLOR=#ffffff], [/COLOR]St. Ignace, MI; **Mystery Hill** , Irish Hills, MI; **Mysterious Tuttle House** , North Woodstock, NH; **Mystery Hill** , Blowing Rock, NC; **Mystery Shack** , Maggie Valley, NC; **[Mystery Hill](http://www.mysteryhill.com/)**, Marblehead, OH; **[The Oregon Vortex House of Mystery](http://www.oregonvortex.com/)**, Gold Hill, OR; **Confusion Hill** , Ligonier, PA; [**Gravity Hill**](http://www.bedfordcounty.net/GRAVITYHILL/), Bedford Country, PA; **Cosmos of the Black Hills** , Rapid City, SD; **The Wonder Spot** , Lake Delton, WI; **The Teton Mystery** , Jackson, WY; [**Mystery Hole**](http://www.mysteryhole.com/), Ansted, WV. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-heard-of-this-fun-house-where-is-it/501465/4 "2009-06-30T13:12:41Z")
There was Casa Loca at [Freedomland USA](http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/RobFriedman/) back in the early 60s. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Shroud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@The\_Shroud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Shroud)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-heard-of-this-fun-house-where-is-it/501465/5 "2009-06-30T13:43:52Z")
Sounds like the OP is larger-scale, but there was (is?) an [illusion like that](http://www.flickr.com/photos/trentimus/2607072253/) at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-heard-of-this-fun-house-where-is-it/501465/6 "2009-06-30T16:02:08Z")
Winchester House isn’t really a mystery house like the other ones on that page. It’s got extremely weird architecture, but that has more to do with insanity and scam spiritualism than strangely situated buildings. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-heard-of-this-fun-house-where-is-it/501465/7 "2009-06-30T19:16:14Z")
Ames room. > **[Ames room](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_room)** > > An Ames room is a distorted room that creates an optical illusion. Likely influenced by the writings of Hermann Helmholtz, it was invented by American scientist Adelbert Ames Jr. in 1946, and constructed in the following year. > An Ames room is viewed with one eye through a peephole. Through the peephole, the room appears to be an ordinary rectangular cuboid, with a back wall that is vertical and at right angles to the observer's line of sight, two vertical side walls parallel to each other, and a... [http://www.exploratorium.edu/cmp/exhibits/d/distorted\_room.html](http://www.exploratorium.edu/cmp/exhibits/d/distorted_room.html) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-heard-of-this-fun-house-where-is-it/501465/8 "2009-06-30T22:19:19Z")
An attraction like this seems to have been a staple at the various Six Flags around the country. I visited one at Six Flags over Texas in the 1970’s (Wikipedia says it was called Casa Magnetica, but it’s gone now.) There were also apparently similar attractions at Six Flags over Georgia and Astroworld. They had names like “Wacky Shack” and “Casa Loco”.