"We have diverse curious Clocks; And other like Motions of Return....
We have also House of Deceits of the Senses, where we represent all manner of Feats of Juggling, False Apparitions, Impostures, and Illusions...
Those are (my sonne) the Riches of Salomon's House

-Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis, ed. Rawley, pp. 41-42

"Here shall be found a house like none other on the face of the Earth"
-Jorge Luis Borges, The House of Asterion