Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

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

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

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

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

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

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

The gravestone of an eccentric Connecticut doctor features dinosaur tracks and a pair of fossil tree casts.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

Despite the name, this narrow bridge isn't very dangerous at all.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

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

The widow of Benjamin Franklin's brother became the first female newspaper editor in the United States.

The final resting place of the famous Rhode Island lighthouse keeper who heroically saved dozens of people from drowning.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

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

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

A railroad magnate's replica village has become home to a genetic seed bank for rare breeds of livestock.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

This 19th-century Hamptons windmill was once home to modernist painter Agnes Pelton.

An abandoned 146-acre summer resort slowly being reclaimed by nature.