I don’t think I mentioned it, but we visited a Munster’s Mansion replica the weekend before Halloween.
This was seriously one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time. The story is that the family built this house by watching all the episodes and creating a blueprint from that. Each room was as much a replica as the show as possible included props and everything. The stairs were even lifted with a Spot replica – although it didn’t breath fire. It even included secret passages – and the kicker is that they live it like that FULL TIME. Terrifically cool! The only down side was that we waited for almost four hours – but it was totally worth it.
You can’t see the front gate in this pic very well, but it had the arch and the address 1313 on it. Because we were there until about 2 in the morning, we did get to talk to the owner for a minute and tell him that we really dug his creation. I have a similar “dream” where I rebuild the Psycho house replica – but not with the room-to-room detail of the original. A modern interior with the original spooky exterior. I actually found a set of blueprints for it a long time ago:
The owner of the Munster house told us that the original Psycho house staircase became the Munsters staircase. Pretty cool.