Stonington, Connecticut
Mystic Seaport Museum
Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.
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Stonington, Connecticut
Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.
Orange, Connecticut
The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.
New Haven, Connecticut
137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.
Plainville, Connecticut
A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.
Hartford, Connecticut
The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.
Hartford, Connecticut
A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.
Stamford, Connecticut
An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.
New Haven, Connecticut
An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.
New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.
Union, Connecticut
This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.
Stratford, Connecticut
The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.
Waterbury, Connecticut
A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.
Lisbon, Maine
Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.
Presque Isle, Maine
A small park commemorates the departure of the first-ever successful transatlantic balloon voyage.
Bangor, Maine
This museum explores the history of policing and is also home to a very popular taxidermied duck.
Bangor, Maine
This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”
Bangor, Maine
Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.
Ellsworth, Maine
As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.
Bar Harbor, Maine
A charming museum of natural history featuring dioramas and exhibits made entirely by college students.
Poland, Maine
This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.
Cushing, Maine
If a visit to this farmhouse feels as if you are stepping into an artistic masterpiece, you’d be right.
Brunswick, Maine
This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.
Southwest Harbor, Maine
A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.