Celebrating an art form with a collection of puppets from all over the world.

An extra-wide chair built to accommodate the former president's big behind.

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

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

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

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

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

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

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

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

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

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

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

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

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

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

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

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

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.

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