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Lock 12 Historical Park

Cheshire, Connecticut

Lock 12 Historical Park

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

The centerpiece of the Hartford Circus Fire Memorial, where the middle tent post stood.

Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford Circus Fire Memorial

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

Two ichthyosaur skull replicas on the fourth floor just outside the main museum.

Middletown, Connecticut

Joe Webb Peoples Museum

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

The Remington Arms factory and its shot tower.

Bridgeport, Connecticut

Remington Shot Tower

Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

Aerosol Techniques Factory
Permanently Closed

Milford, Connecticut

Aerosol Techniques Factory

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

The effigy.

New London, Connecticut

Annual Burning of Benedict Arnold

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

Severed Arm of Saint Edmund

Stonington, Connecticut

Severed Arm of Saint Edmund

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Camptosaurus on the rocks.

Uncasville, Connecticut

Wells Dinosaur Haven

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.

Mine Hill Preserve.

Roxbury, Connecticut

Mine Hill Preserve

The remnants of a 19th-century ironmaking complex hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

Cedarcrest Hospital
Permanently Closed

Newington, Connecticut

Cedarcrest Hospital

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

Statue of Rover

Hartford, Connecticut

Statue of Rover

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

Grave of Midnight Mary

New Haven, Connecticut

Grave of Midnight Mary

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

A Eubrontes and two smaller Grallator tracks with foot for size comparison.

Middlefield, Connecticut

Powder Hill Dinosaur Park

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

Barker Character Comic and Cartoon Museum

Cheshire, Connecticut

Barker Character, Comic and Cartoon Museum

A museum dedicated to antique toys, collectibles, and nostalgia.

New Haven, Connecticut

Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library

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

Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, which was used as the Stepford Men's Association

Norwalk, Connecticut

Stepford Wives Locations

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

A portion of Hospital Rock

Farmington, Connecticut

Hospital Rock

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

Hurdy Gurdy.

New Haven, Connecticut

Yale Collection of Musical Instruments

A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.

Castle Craig.

Meriden, Connecticut

Castle Craig

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

Judges Cave.

New Haven, Connecticut

Judges Cave

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

Johnsonville Village

East Haddam, Connecticut

Johnsonville Village

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

Downtown New Preston, CT, where the movie starts.

Washington, Connecticut

Jason's Haunts

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

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 infamous ex-mortuary that was the temporary residence of the Snedeker family

Southington, Connecticut

Snedeker House

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

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