No one has been able to explain the mysteries that exist within the Winchester Mansion or why Sarah Winchester, widow of gun manufacturer William Winchester, kept carpenters' hammers pounding 24 hours a day for 38 years to build the house.

Your admission will allow you to explore one of America's strangest private homes. With 161 rooms (a new one was discovered just a few months ago), the Winchester Mystery House is an extravagant maze of Victorian craftsmanship – marvelous, baffling, and eerily eccentric, to say the least. Your guide will warn you not to stray from the group or you could be lost for hours! Some of the architectural oddities may have practical explanations, and some are just strange. Countless questions will come to mind as you wander through the mansion – such as what was Mrs. Winchester thinking when she had a staircase built that descends seven steps and then rises eleven?