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Thread City Crossing Frog Statue

Windham, Connecticut

Thread City Crossing Bridge

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

Floral and bestial designs around the tap basins.

Rockville, Connecticut

Cogswell Memorial Fountain

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

The Pinchot Sycamore

Simsbury, Connecticut

The Pinchot Sycamore

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Connecticut)

Hartford, Connecticut

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

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

The Mark Twain House

Hartford, Connecticut

The Mark Twain House & Museum

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

The small stone often has coins and other offerings left by visitors.
Permanently Closed

Deep River, Connecticut

The Grave of XYZ

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

The Boat Building

Hartford, Connecticut

The Boat Building

An elliptical glass tower that is known as the world’s first two-sided building.

A sad sight for car collectors everywhere

Bowling Green, Kentucky

National Corvette Museum Sinkhole

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

A bear successfully destroying a cooler to get to the food inside.

West Yellowstone, Montana

Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

Section of the restored Cliff Walk

Newport, Rhode Island

Newport Cliff Walk

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

The Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial

Newtown, Connecticut

The Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial

A tribute to the students and teachers who lost their lives during the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The commemorative plaque.

Hartford, Connecticut

Site of the First Public Pay Phone

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

Abandoned Fairy Village

Waterbury, Connecticut

Abandoned Fairy Village

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

Bethlehem Cheese.

Bethlehem, Connecticut

Abbey of Regina Laudis

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

Sachem Iyannough Monument

Barnstable, Massachusetts

Sachem Iyannough Monument

A sculpture in Hyannis commemorates Chief Sachem Iyannough of the Mattachiest tribe.

The American Shakespeare Festival Theatre Site

Stratford, Connecticut

The American Shakespeare Festival Theatre Site

Markets and festivals take place at this former home of a 1,500-seat theater, which burned to the ground in 2019.

Edward Penniman House and Barn

Eastham, Massachusetts

Captain Edward Penniman House

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

The exterior of the house.

Yarmouth, Massachusetts

The Edward Gorey House

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Doane Rock, 2014. Child for scale.

Eastham, Massachusetts

Doane Rock

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

The authentic pirate treasure.

Yarmouth, Massachusetts

Whydah Pirate Museum

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

The Three Light House

Eastham, Massachusetts

Three Sisters Lighthouses

These three lighthouses played a fundamental role in the maritime life of Eastham.

Castle Craig.

Meriden, Connecticut

Castle Craig

A lone tower rises above the cliffs in a city park, offering fantastic views of the Connecticut landscape.

Lava pillows visible in the rock cut.

Meriden, Connecticut

Talcott Basalt Lava Pillows

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

Coltsville

Hartford, Connecticut

Coltsville

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

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