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Villa Zorayda, St. Augustine, Fla.(C) Villa Zorayda Museum
Modeled after Spainrs Alhambra Palace in Granada, Franklin Smithrs winter residence started a regional trend for Moorish Spanish architecture when it went up in 1883. The former speakeasy recently reopened as a museum, with restored decor and furnishings reminiscent of The Arabian Nights. Favorite visitor attractions include a sultanrs divan and a 2,300-year-old rug woven from cat hairs.
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Gillette Castle, East Haddam, Conn.(C) Friends of Gillette Castle
William Gilletters castle may have only 24 rooms, but itrs chockfull of oddities and mysteries cooked up by Gillette himself: a movable table on tracks, a surveillance system using hidden mirrors, and each of the homers 47 doors, no two of which are alike. Gillette left no heirs, but stipulated in his will that his estate not fall into the hands of a "blithering sap-head who has no conception of where he is or with what surrounded."