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

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

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

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

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

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

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

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

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

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

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

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

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

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

The former home of a disgraced local priest now hosts a mysterious secret supper club.

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

Site of the graveyard vine believed to be a curse on a family from the 1800s.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

This New England drive-in was built to straddle the border between two states.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.