Springtime is go time for this repurposed shack and the fish it venerates.

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

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

This sculpture commemorates the first instance of an American president pardoning a turkey.

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

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

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

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

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

The highest point in Connecticut was incorrectly memorialized before surveyors discovered the actual spot.

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

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

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.

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.

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

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

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

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

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

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

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

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."