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

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

This classic steam-powered train takes tourists on a nostalgic trip around the Connecticut River Valley.

Thousands of American timepieces on display in the former clock-making capital of the country.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

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

Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

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

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

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

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

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

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

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

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

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

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

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