Places afink Wants to Go

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

This museum holds a fully-functional replica of the "Turtle," the first American submarine ever built.

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

Springtime is go time for this repurposed shack and the fish it venerates.

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

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

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

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

The location of the pie company that gave a classic toy its name is now a parking lot.

A museum dedicated to antique toys, collectibles, and nostalgia.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

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

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

An extra-wide chair built to accommodate the former president's big behind.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

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

A 9-story, poured concrete structure which was used as a glue factory with an indelible smell.

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.