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Mystery Castle. Coordinates: 33°21′30″N 112°03′48″W. Mystery Castle. Mystery Castle is located in the city of Phoenix, Arizona, in the foothills of South Mountain Park. It was built in the 1930s by Boyce Luther Gulley for his daughter Mary Lou Gulley. After learning he had tuberculosis, Gulley moved from Seattle to the Phoenix area ...
GAC travels to San Jose, California, to get locked-down inside the legendary Winchester Mystery House, a 160-room Victorian mansion filled with mazes of hallways, staircases leading to nowhere, and trap doors. Beginning in 1884, the house was built continuously for over 38 years, by Sarah Winchester, an eccentric heiress to the Winchester rifle ...
Tovrea Castle is a historic structure and landmark at 5041 East Van Buren Street in Phoenix, Arizona, on 44 acres (18 ha) bounded by the Red Mountain Freeway (State Route 202) to the east, Washington Street to the south, Van Buren Street to the north and the Main Post Office to the west. Locally known as the "Wedding Cake Castle," it was built ...
The doors and windows that opened to nothing resulted from the 1906 earthquake and the severe damage that happened to the house. [18] [14] [4] The small steps were built because of Winchester's declining health. [10] The trap doors were constructed in a greenhouse room where excess water could run and be piped to an outdoor garden. [14]
South Mountain Park. Coordinates: 33°20′10″N 112°4′10″W. Monument at the entrance of the South Mountain Park. South Mountain Park in Phoenix, Arizona, is the largest municipal park in the United States, [1] and one of the largest urban parks in North America and in the world. It has been designated as a Phoenix Point of Pride.
August 16, 1989. The Wrigley Mansion in Phoenix, Arizona, is a landmark building constructed between 1929 and 1931 by chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley Jr. It is also known as William Wrigley Jr. Winter Cottage and as La Colina Solana. Located at 2501 East Telewa Trail, [1] it sits atop a 100-foot (30 m) knoll with views of greater Phoenix to ...
James Randi. James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928 – October 20, 2020) was a Canadian-American stage magician, author, and scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. [1] He was the co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), and founder of the James Randi ...
The Arizona Biltmore is a historic resort located in Phoenix near 24th Street and Camelback Road. Designed by Albert Chase McArthur, it opened on February 23, 1929, as part of the Biltmore Hotel chain. Actors Clark Gable and Carole Lombard often stayed there and the Tequila sunrise cocktail was invented there.