[quirky music]
- Dan "Spiffy" Neuman: It is designed to be sensory overload.
It is art, it is music, it is architecture, it is magic.
We are at the House on the Rock.
You wanna lean into the spooky a little bit.
[door creaks] [creepy laughter]
There's no place else like it in the world.
- Angela Fitzgerald: Dan "Spiffy" Neuman knows his way
around the House on the Rock.
- Dan: How you doing, Marvin? - Good, yourself, Dan?
- Dan: It's good to see you.
Haven't seen you in a little bit.
- Angela: He loves to take people there for the first time.
- Dan: It's the first thing you enter
where you realize that what you're seeing
is not like places that you've been before.
- Angela: A place he hopes elicits the same impact
as it has had on him.
- Something out here is breeding creativity,
and I'm open to people calling that
whatever they wanna call that.
Magic or inspiration for the spirit.
This place, you know, is definitely a magical place
in different ways to different people.
- Angela: It's been working its magic on Dan
after a near-death experience from COVID.
- Dan: When I first woke up from the coma,
I had to completely reteach my body how to do everything,
including walking.
- Angela: With its gentle slopes, occasional stairs,
distance to cover, and places to pause and reflect,
the house became key to Dan's recovery.
- Dan: Definitely a place that even now,
I still sit and stop and rest for a bit.
- Angela: But since he first came here post COVID,
Dan has persevered.
- It was very difficult, it was very painful, but I did it.
And I enjoyed it
because of the experience of all the things I loved here,
all in one place.
- Angela: Motivated by all there is to see and share,
Dan now dedicates his visits to helping others
find their own fantastical wonder.
- Dan: There's very few things that get me as excited
as when I have somebody new that hasn't been before
and I just know that they're gonna love something.
There's two places that are guaranteed to get a reaction
and I usually film them, film my guest's reaction.
- My word!
- Oh, my God!
- Holy ----!
What?
[bright music]
- Dan: I think everybody should see it once.
- Angela: Step by step, the path through the House on the Rock
has been a healing one for Dan,
aided by those he has brought along.
- Dan: This place really helped with my health journey.
When you're seeing joy and awe and wonder
in somebody else's eyes,
it not only does it take your mind off struggle and pain
and things like that, but it also makes it worthwhile.
And as many times as I've come, it's still worth it.
So, I'm grateful.