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

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

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

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

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

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

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

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

One of the earliest graveyards in the region.

This Connecticut video store has a vast and varied archive that contains everything from 'Koyaanisqatsi' to 'The King's Speech.'

This eclectic homestead is home to a miniature windmill and Connecticut's last tollbooth.

Visit the grave of America's most prominent paranormal investigators and self-proclaimed demonologists.

One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.

Celebrating an art form with a collection of puppets from all over the world.

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 journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

Amazing views of Long Island Sound can be seen from this mountaintop tower.

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

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

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

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.