A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

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

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

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

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

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

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

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

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

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

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

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

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

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

This museum holds a fully-functional replica of the "Turtle," the first American submarine ever built.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.