This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.

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

Public outcry led to this bridge's unique character which celebrates a giant frog battle and also sewing.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

The highest point in Connecticut was incorrectly memorialized before surveyors discovered the actual spot.

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

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

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

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

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

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

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

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.

An obelisk marks the farmhouse where the founder of Mormonism was born.