Nineteenth-century cabins and volunteer re-enactors offer a window into history.

Designed by Calvert Vaux, this former post office now serves as a home for the local arts.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

This state-of-the-art planetarium takes architectural inspiration from the sun itself.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

This striking arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in Prospect Park, was recently restored to its original glory.

The site of a fallen tree that protected Americans from British forces during the American Revolution.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

This stone bridge is all that remains of a submerged New Jersey town.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

This statue honors a pillar of the early New Haven Black community.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

After the comedian dissed a Connecticut town on his show, they named a sewage treatment plant after him.

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

This statue commemorates the importance of hat manufacturing to Danbury, once known as the "Hat City of the World."

A statue commemorating a 16-year old girl's nighttime ride to raise a militia against attacking British troops.

Connecticut sites linked to the only trial to ever use demonic possession as a criminal defense.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.