Places basil111 Wants to Go

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

The tragic tale of the dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia.

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

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

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

A once-booming railroad left abandoned next to the Quinnipiac River marshes now intersects with a hiking trail.

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

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

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

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

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

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

Inside the simple black-and-white exterior of Église Sainte-Cécile hides a pastel wonderland.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

Every autumn, this grove of living fossils erupts in a blaze of brilliant golden-yellow leaves and stinky fruit.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

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

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