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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The House on the Rock

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Join host Dylan Thuras and producer Harry Huggins as they visit the unruly architecture of The House on the Rock - one of the inspirations for Atlas Obscura. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/house-rock

Transcript

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Are you ready?

0:02.0

Alright.

0:04.0

Today, the house on the rock.

0:08.0

This, it honestly, like, it gives me the feeling of like what a kid going to Disneyland

0:18.0

has to feel like.

0:19.0

Like, I want to grab everyone and shake them to be like, do you have any idea what you're

0:23.0

about to see?

0:24.0

Well, have you struggled with it as much as me, like describing what this is?

0:29.0

It's impossible.

0:31.0

It's almost impossible.

0:33.0

We started the episode by saying that this is a celebration of the world's strange, incredible,

0:39.0

and wondrous places.

0:41.0

And, well, the house on the rock is almost impossible to describe.

0:45.0

I honestly think that the best way to start describing it is strange, incredible, and wondrous.

0:51.0

And, in all honesty, I don't know that there would be an out of subscura without the house on the rock.

0:58.0

Here we are.

1:00.0

Oh, it really is.

1:02.0

On this episode, we go deep into the house on the rock.

1:06.0

After this.

1:22.0

Alright, there's Taylor's in.

1:24.0

So we're, yeah, in Springgreen, Wisconsin, driving by Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's famous rural

1:30.0

Wisconsin home.

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