Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.We took a 65-minute tour through 110 rooms of the unique estate. The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California, sits between the eight lanes of the I-280 freeway, a mobile home park, and the remains of a Space Age movie theater.Sarah's Attic was opened for the first time since 1922, with an array of items left undisturbed from that time. This 160 room villa has permanently been under construction for 38 years. "Some of them love the architecture, some want to see the ghosts, some like the history," Janan Boehme, the historian at the house, told Business Insider. 13 October 2016 A new (or rather, old) hidden room has been opened at the famously spooky Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California for the first time since 1922 and is available for tours. The Winchester Mystery House is probably every paranormal investigators dream.Since 1923, tours have been taking curious visitors through the gargantuan mansion, which remains a famous tourist attraction today.Inside you'll find quite a few architectural oddities, like a staircase that leads to nowhere, cabinets that open into walls, and a door that open up to a 12-foot drop.Crews reportedly worked around-the-clock to maintain a steady building rate. Construction on the home spanned over 30 years until Winchester's death in 1922.The estate's mystery stems from a century-old legend: that Winchester built the mansion to escape the angry spirits of those killed by a Winchester rifle, which her husband's company invented. Both beautiful and baffling, the legendary Winchester Mystery House is a 160-room mansion in San Jose, California replete with oddities like trap doors, staircases that lead to nowhere and. The Winchester Mystery House is a unique mansion famous for its 160 rooms, architectural oddities such as doors and stairways that lead nowhere. The Winchester Mystery House is a 160-room, Victorian mansion in San Jose, California, that was built by eccentric heiress Sarah Winchester, who inherited the fortune to the firearm company Winchester Repeating Arms when her husband died in 1881.In the 1800s, Sarah Winchesterthe peculiar heir to the famed rifle company fortunebegan building a labyrinthine Victorian. The Sister Wives star, 51, visited the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California with her 13-year-old daughter Truely. A new room has been discovered at the Winchester Mystery House. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Christine Brown’s bucket list just grew shorter with one adventure.
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