A giant ant model welcomes visitors to an exhibit about symbiotic organisms that live with army ant colonies.

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

A statue commemorating a 16-year old girl's nighttime ride to raise a militia against attacking British troops.

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

An actual piece of the Moon, brought down to Earth by Apollo 15.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

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

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

A castle inspired by medieval architecture is hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

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

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.