New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

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

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?

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

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 kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

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

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

A lone tower rises above the cliffs in a city park, offering fantastic views of the Connecticut landscape.

An agricultural research library housed in a former Odd Fellows Lodge.

One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

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