The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

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

Celebrating an art form with a collection of puppets from all over the world.

American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

This classic steam-powered train takes tourists on a nostalgic trip around the Connecticut River Valley.

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.

The remnants of a 19th-century ironmaking complex hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

Thousands of American timepieces on display in the former clock-making capital of the country.

A museum dedicated to antique toys, collectibles, and nostalgia.

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.