It's always a shame when cool visual illusions are destroyed - especially historic ones :(
LAKE DELTON, Wis. - In a wooded ravine tucked away from the water parks, restaurants and mega-resorts that dominate this tourist town, a piece of history is quietly dying.After more than half a century of wowing tourists (and causing probably more than a few cases of nausea), the Wonder Spot, a mysterious cabin where people can't stand up straight, water runs uphill and chairs balance on two legs, is no more.
Owner Bill Carney has sold the iconic attraction to the village of Lake Delton for $300,000. The village wants to build a road through the crevice where the Wonder Spot has stood since the 1950s.
-Update- Check out the Mystery Spot in California below the fold.
From the Mystery Spot Webpage.
Discovered in 1939 and opened to the public in 1940, the Mystery Spot has amazed and perplexed hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world. Many return again to experience the puzzling variations in gravity, perspective, height and more.Theories: Flying saucer fans speculate that cones of metal were secretly brought here and buried in our earth as guidance systems for their spacecraft. Other theories about what causes the Mystery Spot include carbon dioxide seeping out of the earth, the "highest dielectric biocosmic radiation" known anywhere in the world, and radiesthesia... whatever the cause is, it remains a mystery.
I really need to work on getting to these places!
Comments
Your kidding! hmm... I know the owners of the new golf course near there. Maybe I can do my civic duty and get them to put some pressure on. We are talking hardcore American land developers and their bought town councils around there though.
Posted by: Markk | February 5, 2007 12:39 PM
If it goes... someone really needs to do a complete photographic archive of the area.
Posted by: steve | February 5, 2007 12:42 PM
You have to wonder what will happen to traffic moving through this phenomenon, if you happen to be able to think, anyway. I wonder who thought this was a good idea?
Posted by: Bill | February 5, 2007 1:57 PM
This reminds me of the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA. http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/story.html
Posted by: Michele | February 5, 2007 2:23 PM