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.

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

A preserved trolley track that was transformed into a museum of transportation.

A collection of mechanical beasts with some interesting names.

A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

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.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

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.

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.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.