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

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

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

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

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

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

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.