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The Mystery Spot was the first "gravity-defying" tourist attraction in California and was the most prominent illusion-based tourist attraction in California in the mid-20th century. [20] It has been featured on BuzzFeed , and in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and other newspapers, comic strips, and travel blogs for decades.
Santa Cruz: 465 Mystery Spot Road off Branciforte Drive near State Route 17 (SR 17) within the redwood forest. A tourist attraction called "Mystery Spot" is operated at the site. [251] [252] San Francisco: In Golden Gate Park, on JFK drive, just West of Transverse Drive, where the water from Rainbow Falls flows towards Lloyd Lake.
When the very similar Mystery Spot was created in Santa Cruz, California in 1939, Litster sued for copyright violations, but withdrew the suit when it was pointed out that he claimed the Oregon Vortex was a natural phenomenon. When Litster died in 1959, his wife sold the Oregon Vortex to Ernie and Irene Cooper.
In 1945, Erlandson's daughter and his wife visited the ocean near Santa Cruz, California, where they saw people lined up to pay to see such oddities as tilted buildings at the Mystery Spot. They returned home and mentioned offhandedly to Axel that if his trees were on a well-traveled tourist route, they might draw people who would pay to see them.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Santa Cruz County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.
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