Castle which is located at the foot of the South mountain range. I was watching the PBS channel the other night and it talked about this place so I decided to check it out. A little history first. Boyce Gulley was diagnosed with tuberculosis and left Seattle and his wife and daughter and moved to Phoenix. He began to build a castle for his daughter Mary Lou. The building is said to be held together by a combination of mortar, cement, calcium, and goat milk. The sprawling 18 room three story castle with 13 fireplaces is built from a wide range of material--stone, adobe, automobile parts, salvage railroad tracks from a mine, telephone poles, and other materials available to him. It features a chapel, cantina, and a dungeon. Parts of the castle remains unfinished and electricity and plumbing weren't added until 1992. Robert Gulley died in 1945 leaving the castle to his wife and daughter. They came there to live and eventually turned the Mystery Castle into a museum where they offered tours. Mary Lou died in 2010.
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