Frankly this is the only thing in Death Valley that I
didn't care about. In my opinion it's just a house albeit a fancy one in the
middle of the desert. They were charging $10 to visit the interior and we
decided it's not worth it. There was a long line of people willing to pay
the $10 so in fact it was $10 plus waiting. We visited the grounds instead.
The story about the castle goes like this: Scotty was a guy who pretended to
have found a gold mine and be filthy rich; in reality he had no money but he
persuaded his friend Albert Johnson, a Chicago millionaire who was searching
for a quiet retreat, to build this house. The building started in the 20's
but was never finished.
