A popular side trip for visitors to nearby Wisconsin Dells, the Wonder Spot was advertised as a place "where the laws of natural gravity seem to be repealed."
Visitors walked down a ravine into a cabin, where seemingly no one could stand up straight, water flowed backwards, and chairs could be balanced on two legs.
[2] Guides attributed the effects to igneous rock formations,[3] but in truth, the cabin was built perpendicular to a hillside, and the purported gravitational anomalies were merely optical illusions.
[2] Louis Dauterman of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin opened the Wonder Spot in 1952, and Bill Carney purchased it in 1988.
[3] At the time of its closing, the Wonder Spot was the oldest permitted attraction in the Wisconsin Dells region.