funhouse

A funhouse or fun house is an amusement facility found in amusement parks and funfair midways, equipped with various devices designed to surprise, challenge, and amuse visitors. Unlike thrill rides or dark rides, fun houses are participatory attractions, where visitors enter and move around at their own preference. Incorporating aspects of a playful obstacle course, they seek to distort conventional perceptions and startle people with unpredictable physical circumstances in an ambiance of wacky whimsicality. Common features Originally starting in Coney Island in the early 1900s, the funhouse was initially a house/large building containing a number of amusement devices (e.g. motorized versions of what can be found on a children's playground). The most common amusements were: