Winchester Mystery House

525 South Winchester Boulevard, San Jose, California

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+1 408 247 2000, 408 247 2101

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www.winchestermysteryhouse.com

The Winchester Mystery House is probably the most famous haunted house in California. Curious visitors can tour this Queen Anne Style Victorian mansion and encounter the spooks and spirits that haunt the 160 rooms of this palatial home.

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My friends and I have gone to the Winchester Mystery House a couple of times and really had a great time. more on insiderpages.com

If you want your money's worth it helps to be interested in the carpentry, architecture, and gardens. more on Yahoo! Travel

We want to go back and do one of the other tours offered. more on Trekaroo

There are three separate tours, the Mansion tour ($30), the Behind the Scenes tour ($27 which allows you around the exterior of the building but not the interior), and the Grand Estate tour which incl ... more on TripAdvisor

Absolutely fascinating what money and madness can produce. more on Yahoo! Travel

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I enjoy going to see the place and get the feel of another lost century; but the Winchester widow was actually a very astute businesswoman; she ran an agricutural business and employed many in the are ... more on TripAdvisor

Fun outing with kids and for history buffs. Tours are thorough and interesting. Have been here several times ... more on TripAdvisor

I took this tour about 25 years ago as a child and remember the tour back then was more of a "haunted house" tour. The tour is still interesting, but it is more of an amusement house focusing on the w ... more on TripAdvisor

I enjoyed looking through the house and hearing about the history but it is terribly over priced for what you get. more on TripAdvisor

Womderful tours, the grand estate tour was the best value. Always wanted to go. A must see for all history and ghost lovers. more on TripAdvisor

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I have gone to the Windchester House a lot and I am love it. the people are so friendly and they really make the house come ... more on Yahoo! Travel

Expensive and time consuming. I was waiting to be impressesd, intrigued, scared... anything. No build up, nothing special. ... more on Yahoo! Travel

This tour was awesome. The total time was an hour and a half and I got to see 95% of the rooms in the home... even the basement. ... more on Yahoo! Travel

This place really didn't do much for me. Except show the depth of someones insanity. Kind of tacky actually. However the drive from S.F. was nice,and the countryside was beautiful. With all the things to see in S.F. I felt it was ... more on Yahoo! Travel

I thought the Winchester House was boring and droll. There was nothing scary, nothing realistic, just a little bit of history that could have bored an old person. The entrance is a a complete kitsch land Disneyland shopping area with ... more on Yahoo! Travel

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A small detour from San Francisco led us to the wonderful city of San Jose. Just a 30-minute drive from downtown San Francisco, the ... more on igougo

EERIE, such a weird house. There were stairs that led to no where and stairs that were made for skinny people. (No offence) ... more on igougo

Sarah Pardee Winchester, widow of the President of the Winchester Rifle Company and heiress to his fortune, visited a Boston psychic ... more on igougo

Sarah Winchester would have been considered a crazy lady except for one thing--she had more money than she could spend in her lifetime. ... more on igougo

The Winchester Mystery House is found in San Jose off of Interstate 280 and Winchester Blvd. It is on a small section of land that ... more on igougo