The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

The location of the pie company that gave a classic toy its name is now a parking lot.

This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.

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

Dr. Henry Cogswell hoped that his elaborate drinking fountains would dissuade people from drinking alcohol.

A collection of mechanical beasts with some interesting names.

This eclectic homestead is home to a miniature windmill and Connecticut's last tollbooth.

Sand dunes from a glacial lake are preserved in this woodland park.

A giant ant model welcomes visitors to an exhibit about symbiotic organisms that live with army ant colonies.

Journey inside the bowels of this sperm whale sculpture.

An artificial tree in the University of Connecticut greenhouses holds a collection of orchids, mosses, and other tropical epiphytic plants.

A once-booming railroad left abandoned next to the Quinnipiac River marshes now intersects with a hiking trail.

An actual piece of the Moon, brought down to Earth by Apollo 15.

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.

A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

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

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."