A fire station-turned-church-turned-museum dedicated to the work of seminal light artist Dan Flavin.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

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

This 19th-century Hamptons windmill was once home to modernist painter Agnes Pelton.

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

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

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

This backwater graveyard in the Hamptons became a trendy burial spot and posthumous status symbol for famous artists.

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

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

This private island is still in the family after a 400-year history including a witch hunt and a pirate.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

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

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."