The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

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

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

A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

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

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

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

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

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

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

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

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

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

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

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

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