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A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

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

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

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

The former location of a platform that allowed passengers to safely wait for the trolley.

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

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

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This statue honoring the most decorated dog of World War I stands in a Connecticut park.

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

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

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

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

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

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

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

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