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architecture's only genre designed to make you distrust your own legs.
means A carnival or amusement-park attraction full of distorting mirrors, tilting floors, and disorienting passages meant to delight and bewilder.
from A plain English compound of "fun" and "house," the kind of self-explaining name fairgrounds love. "Fun" itself is the slippery one: it began in the 17th century meaning a cheat, hoax, or trick — to "fun" someone was to fool them — before softening into amusement and play. So a "funhouse," fittingly for a place built to deceive your senses, traces back to a word that once meant a swindle.
- mirror trick
- Curved glass bends light to stretch or squash you
- origin
- Born from 1900s amusement piers and carnival midways
- tilted rooms
- Slanted floors hijack your inner ear's balance
- vanished menace
- Most closed over fire and lawsuit risks
- named album
- The Stooges titled their 1970 record after it
circus circus las vegas — casino with indoor amusement park including funhouse attractions, opened 1968 in nevada
steeplechase park funhouse — famous coney island funhouse that operated from 1897-1964, featuring the iconic laughing sal machine