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The location of the pie company that gave a classic toy its name is now a parking lot.

This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

One of the earliest graveyards in the region.

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

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

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

An artificial tree in the University of Connecticut greenhouses holds a collection of orchids, mosses, and other tropical epiphytic plants.

A once-booming railroad left abandoned next to the Quinnipiac River marshes now intersects with a hiking trail.

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

An actual piece of the Moon, brought down to Earth by Apollo 15.

This sculpture commemorates the first instance of an American president pardoning a turkey.

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.

Celebrating an art form with a collection of puppets from all over the world.

A humble air museum located in an original World War II aircraft factory.

Final resting place of the actress famed for her roles in Dark Shadows and Dario Argento's Suspiria.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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