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

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

An artificial tree in the University of Connecticut greenhouses holds a collection of orchids, mosses, and other tropical epiphytic plants.

A giant ant model welcomes visitors to an exhibit about symbiotic organisms that live with army ant colonies.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

Sand dunes from a glacial lake are preserved in this woodland park.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

An abandoned Victorian-era mill in the middle of modern Manchester.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

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

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

This exhibit is devoted to the games and wonder that Hasbro has brought children worldwide.

The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.

This peculiar lake of pitch is so thick and viscous that one can walk on its surface.

This memorial to a horrific ship collision sits over a mass grave holding dozens of the victims.