This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

This "thrice-cursed" island is allegedly home to Captain Kidd's lost treasure.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

The only remaining piece of hull of the most decorated US ship of WWII is this giant name plate.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

Self-sufficient greenhouse floating on the Hudson River.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.