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

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

An artist of the American Revolution is entombed beneath the Yale art gallery he founded.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

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

The site where chief Miantonomo of the Narraganset people was captured.

Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.

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

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

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

A human attendant once directed car traffic from this structure before automated stoplights.

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.

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

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

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

This monument commemorates an aeronaut who allegedly flew a plane before the Wright brothers.

This Connecticut video store has a vast and varied archive that contains everything from 'Koyaanisqatsi' to 'The King's Speech.'

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

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

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.

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

The first transatlantic wireless communication between the U.S. and Europe took place here in 1903.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

The largest living museum in the Northeast recreates life from the Early Republic period complete with costumed historians and reenactors.