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"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

The pharmacy's retro ice cream mixer is one of the last of its kind.

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

This sycamore is Connecticut's largest tree, New England's largest sycamore, and among the largest of its kind nationwide.

Dr. Henry Cogswell hoped that his elaborate drinking fountains would dissuade people from drinking alcohol.

This large boulder was used as a lookout point by Revolutionary War militiamen.

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

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

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

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

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

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

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

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

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

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

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