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

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

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

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

The official peace statue of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

Connecticut sites linked to the only trial to ever use demonic possession as a criminal defense.

The only American museum exclusively dedicated to the exhibition of gloves.

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

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.

This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.

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

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

The tragic tale of the dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

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

A tribute to the truly loyal dog who waited outside a hospital for his owner to come back.

A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

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

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

This sculpture commemorates the first instance of an American president pardoning a turkey.