San Jose’s 160-room mansion has doors to nowhere and stairs that hit the ceiling

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Sarah Winchester’s house never stopped growing

A Victorian mansion sits on South Winchester Boulevard in San Jose, California, with 160 rooms, 2,000 doors, 47 staircases, and 10,000 window panes.

Construction started in the mid-1880s and did not stop for nearly 38 years.

The woman behind it all poured a massive fortune into a house that grew in every direction, filling it with secret passages, dead-end hallways, and rooms that defy logic…

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