The first star attraction is the whale. It's huge and is being attacked by an equally huge squid like creature. A ramp -- lined with stuff -- winds around the battle and offers various views but the space is so filled with the giant antagonists that capturing the whole scene is impossible. At the top, where the ramp ends near a model of the Titanic, you're even with the business end of the whale.

Not all mechanized music makers at the House on the Rock were newly created. The fourth photo is of a Hupfeld Phonoliszt Violina from the early twentieth century. Most of the displayed machines are activated by tokens. You're handed four when you enter and can purchase more (4/$1) at stations along the way. Watching and hearing a machine like the Hupfeld is quite the experience as is watching and hearing a full orchestra like the one in the next picture. In the orchestra, mechanical fingers press and pluck the strings or slide bows across them.

The other star of Section #2 is The World's Largest Carousel. Like the whale, it's huge plus it's moving and filled with colored lights in a dark room. Getting decent photographs would take more effort than I was ready to expend. I don't suppose the animals on the carousel are all that strange but neither are they bland horses and ponies. The unicorn I managed to capture is one of the more normal rides available. The one directly in front of it is a dog. There are also plenty of bare breasted women on the carousel. That's something I'm generally in favor of though Jordan's bare breasted women often have bizarre masks or the heads or lower body parts of animals. The breasts are always human, though. AFAIK.

The large amount of circus related items on display includes several diorama style settings like the big top scene pictured. I can't swear that it's the only name used but the only name I found on any of the items was Hagenbeck-Wallace. I later determined that Hagenbeck-Wallace was the name of a very real circus that operated through the first couple decades of the twentieth century. I don't know whether the items displayed at the House on the Rock are legitimate memorabilia or in-house creation but my guess is the latter. I do know that the worst circus tragedy in history befell the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus in 1918 when a train wreck killed eighty-six of its members. There is also a full size circus display with a full size (or larger) circus orchestra. Here is a section of the orchestra showing some of the wind instruments. Those white disks in front of the clarinetists' faces puff out like cheeks when they play though I don't know if that something purely visual or an important part of the playing mechanism.

There's more to Section #3 including a large gun collection, a large armor collection, and a few hundred carousel horses hanging on the walls near one more carousel. This is where the tour ends and this is the last thing to see before exiting Section #3.