Gingerbread House

The building’s original purpose was to lure hungry children to the door, so that the opportunistic crone inside might survive the famine through cannibalism. And yet, after some early success, the wicked sorceress was bested in a contest of wits by the future Queen Gretel and her twin brother Hansel. After that, it lay abandoned and empty for a great many years—lost in the forest.

Upon the home’s rediscovery in 146, a now-adult Hansel decided to turn this place full of bad memories into some place for his less fortunate countrymen to enjoy. Together with his elven husband, and with funds donated by his sister the queen, Hansel made the cottage “bigger on the inside”—creating a pocket dimension made of all the sweet foodstuffs he could think of, and then adding an amusement park on top of that.

Selected rides include:

• Confection Country Carousel, where guests can ride upon the backs of unicorns made of cotton candy
• Molten Brownie Mountain, a thrilling roller coaster where guests try to outrun the chocolate lava pouring forth from the caldera at the top of Mount Brownie
• Gummy Bear Jamboree, a relaxing boat ride through Lollipop Forest with a Gummy Bear Guide who will sing you songs and tell you dad jokes along the way

And at the center of it all is Castello Gelato, a brightly colored fortress meant to look like a bowl of ice cream with towers made out of waffle cones.

The exterior of the Gingerbread House is made mostly of gingerbread, of course, and embellished with candy canes, gumdrops, melted chocolate, and other assorted goodies. It appears from the outside to be a modest two-room cottage with a gabled roof.

The house will disappear for a time if anyone dares to eat a part of its exterior. The amount of time it is gone depends entirely on how greedy the culprit was. When it returns, it returns as it was before—with any guests who were stuck inside blissfully unaware that anything happened at all.

Until, that is, they go home and realize that days, weeks, or months have passed.

Admission to the Gingerbread House is free, though the popularity of the place and the bottleneck of getting guests through the front door requires that reservations be made in advance.