Yikes. Winchester Mystery House from the air.

[arcadian]

http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=q6krpb4v3nwk&style=o&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=5935114&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

more about the house:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House

[TZ]

1. Ah. This is the house that inspired Stephen King's "Rose Red"

I believe.

[rurallib]

2. That's one house? Looks like a small village

[davsand]

3. Oh, that is just TOO weird! I was just telling somebody about this house this morning.

We are real estate appraisers and we were talking about the ONE job we never would want to have to face. I brought up the Winchester Mansion, and he'd never heard of it--so we had to look it up.

Amazing place.



Laura

[Arugula Latte]

4. I haven't been there since I was a kid ...

I didn't realize it was so sprawling. Weird, wild stuff.

[arcadian]

5. Cool, I want to go there on my next trip to SF.

[Arugula Latte]

6. I should bring my kids next time we're in the Bay Area.

Family still lives there (East Bay, though) so we can maybe make the trek over. My nine-year-old LOVES this kind of stuff.

[KamaAina]

7. Come on down!

We could use a little excitement at this end of the Bay. :boring:

[MajorChode]

8. It's even more impressive inside

[TheCentepedeShoes]

9. I went there in 1963

MD and I were spending a couple of months with her sister and family in San Jose
I liked the climate in the Bay area, but this was a particularly hot and muggy day and I got a god awful migraine about halfway thru the tour
The place IIRC didn't have a lot of ventilation
I'd had a couple of migraines before (and none since, thankfully) and my vision was so f'ed up I could hardly see going up and down stairs, through passages, etc
It is a fascinating place and you don't realize how sprawling it really is when inside