"Dr. Lonnie Hammargren's Las Vegas home, which includes a million-dollar mechanical dragon and Liberace's piano and rotating bed, will be featured on "What's With That House" (11 p.m. Wednesday, HGTV)."

For those of you who have no idea who Lonnie Hammargren is, he was Nevada's Lt. Governor years ago and the neurosurgeon who operated on Roy Horn after he was attacked by the tiger. If you have no idea why you should be interested in seeing his house, let's just say it is the most interesting house you will ever - EVER - see in your entire life.

Once a year on Nevada Day, the doctor opens his home to the public and provides entertainment and food for a small donation that benefits the Boy Scouts. We have gone three years in a row, and took Parker with us last year. Evel Kneivel's motorbikes, the Batman car, the basket used as a prop in Around the World in 80 Days, Liberace's staircase, and a couple of home observatories are only half the fun. His house is actually 3 homes crammed to the brim with all kinds of crap and connected with signage from old casinos and other bizarre miscellany. It's like the world's dustiest museum of everything. A room dedicated to presidential paraphernalia, a room of Southwest/Indian artifacts, a recreation of the NYC skyline, a whole room dedicated to the Catholic Church and the Vatican, the largest baseball cap collection you've ever seen... His house is cool and cheesy at the same time (baseball caps line the ceiling and liquor bottles line the walls of the room next to the Egyptian-themed parlor, for example), and you wonder how anyone could live there or why some of this amazing stuff is left out in the elements, or why did he decide to paint the faces of the astronauts of Challenger on the floor of his pool? If you're ever in town on the day he opens up, make sure you go. Watching this show will have to be the next best thing.

Bettie