If you build it, they will escape. Entering into the escape room craze is an unlikely source: The Dahlonega Gold Museum State Historic Site. “We were thinking of programs that we could offer that were outside the box and would be fitting to our particular site, and we decided that this would be a good way to intertwine fun and history,” site manager Sam McDuffie said. McDuffie said about 60 people have been locked up and released by their ingenuity since October — though who actually wants to break out of a gold museum?