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

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

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 former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

This nature mural exists to protect the surrounding environment and its own canvas from destruction.

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

On Hurricane Island, a former ghost town has been transformed into a forward-thinking research center.

If a visit to this farmhouse feels as if you are stepping into an artistic masterpiece, you’d be right.

The remains of a large iron mill that once stood in the remote woods of northern Maine.

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.