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

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

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

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

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

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

What appears to be an act of fruit vandalism is actually a cultural statement.

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

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

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