La Casa Loca

La Casa Loca, also known as the Crazy House Museum, is an upside-down house in Guatavita, Colombia, offering visitors an optical illusion experience.

Planning your visit

La Casa Loca is an upside-down house near Guatavita, north of Bogota — a full building constructed inverted, with furniture fixed to the ceiling and floors above, so photographs taken inside appear to defy gravity.

The format has spread worldwide, and it works on exactly one principle: rotate the image and the viewer reads it as a person standing on the ceiling.

Its position is the practical point. Guatavita is visited for the lagoon — the crater lake where Muisca rulers were said to have covered themselves in gold dust and made offerings, the origin of the El Dorado legend that drew Spanish expeditions for centuries — and for the reconstructed colonial town built after the original was flooded by a reservoir in the 1960s.

The Crazy House sits on that route and functions as a light stop within a more substantial day.

Bookable options include tours from Bogota combining Guatavita lagoon with the museum. Current availability is listed below.