Places BrandyBacon Wants to Go

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

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

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

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

The highest point in Connecticut was incorrectly memorialized before surveyors discovered the actual spot.

A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.

Thousands of American timepieces on display in the former clock-making capital of the country.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

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

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

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Public outcry led to this bridge's unique character which celebrates a giant frog battle and also sewing.

A tribute to the truly loyal dog who waited outside a hospital for his owner to come back.

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

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

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.