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

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

Now home to hardy plants, these sand and gravel dunes once held back a massive prehistoric lake.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

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

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

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

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

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

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

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

Journey inside the bowels of this sperm whale sculpture.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.