This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

This underground cave located in the most barren reaches of Idaho is filled with ice year-round.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

A collection of mechanical beasts with some interesting names.

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

Journey inside the bowels of this sperm whale sculpture.

A once-booming railroad left abandoned next to the Quinnipiac River marshes now intersects with a hiking trail.

A humble air museum located in an original World War II aircraft factory.

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

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

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

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

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

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

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.

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

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

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

A lone tower rises above the cliffs in a city park, offering fantastic views of the Connecticut landscape.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.