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

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

The gravestone of an eccentric Connecticut doctor features dinosaur tracks and a pair of fossil tree casts.

The remnants of a 19th-century ironmaking complex hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

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

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

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

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

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.