“Winchester Mystery House (Torque Books) (Scariest Places on Earth)”

“This has to be one of my top destinations. It just looks really weird and cool, and for whatever reason I feel like it’s going to get demolished at some point, which will be too bad.

I’ve always had these ideas for what I would do if I became an eccentric millionaire. Building a house like this is way up there. Now, it couldn’t be the same because that’s been done, but what I’d like to do is build a very normal, very suburban-looking house, and, without telling anyone, add in all kinds of secret rooms behind bookcases, floorboard hidey-holes, shit like that. And in them I’d like to put really weird stuff. Like a porcelain doll collection in one, but I’ve used markers to mark out all the eyes. And maybe another one would be all dental equipment and a dentist chair. Like a full, modern dentist’s office hidden underneath the staircase or something.

If you’re an eccentric millionaire and you’re out there, do it! It’ll be great. You’ll have the last laugh. Nobody’s going to remember just some rich guy who had a home theater. Big whoop. But if they knocked on a wall, realized you’d drywalled over a closet, and then opened it to find 100 of the exact same shirt, all stained with blood? Now THAT’S something worth talking about.”