An extra-wide chair built to accommodate the former president's big behind.

Amazing views of Long Island Sound can be seen from this mountaintop tower.

An abandoned Victorian-era mill in the middle of modern Manchester.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

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

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

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.

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

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

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

Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.

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

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

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

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Public outcry led to this bridge's unique character which celebrates a giant frog battle and also sewing.

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

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

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

A tribute to the truly loyal dog who waited outside a hospital for his owner to come back.

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

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