The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

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

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

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

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

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

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.