Las Vegas Castle

The entrance hall also serves as a music room, thanks to the pair of grand pianos located in the hall. A walk through one of the pyramid-shaped openings leads to a 19th century Western-style saloon filled with items collected from all around Nevada (figure A). Other eclectic surprises await elsewhere, including a dinosaur from a 1937 movie set lurking at the top of a twisting staircase. There are also pieces Hammargren picked up during his travels to Africa and other exotic places (figure B).

The outside of the home is now a replica of the Palace of the Governors in Mexico's Yucatan Pennisula. A replication of the Mayan Castillo pyramid sits on top of the original house. The backyard is decorated with a submarine from the TV show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and a motorcycle once owned by stunt rider Gary Wells. There's also a mining-gauge railroad with locomotive (Figure C), a genuine Apollo space capsule that was used for training astronauts, and replicas of the Lincoln Memorial and Statue of Liberty.