Places BrandyBacon Wants to Go

Retirement home where the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West passed away.

A bridge commemorating the actor's legacy and his Terryville roots.

A castle inspired by medieval architecture is hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

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

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

The gravestone of an eccentric Connecticut doctor features dinosaur tracks and a pair of fossil tree casts.

American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

A humble air museum located in an original World War II aircraft factory.

A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.

Now home to hardy plants, these sand and gravel dunes once held back a massive prehistoric lake.

This classic steam-powered train takes tourists on a nostalgic trip around the Connecticut River Valley.

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

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.

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

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

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

Final resting place of the actress famed for her roles in Dark Shadows and Dario Argento's Suspiria.

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

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 final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

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

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

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

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.