Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

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

Connecticut sites linked to the only trial to ever use demonic possession as a criminal defense.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

An unexpected Easter egg lurks in the background of a cherub wall relief at the Breakers mansion.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

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

A railroad magnate's replica village has become home to a genetic seed bank for rare breeds of livestock.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."

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

The tennis legend used this racket while breaking the race barrier and becoming the first Black man to win the US Open.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

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

The first newspaper printed by an expeditionary force was published in this colonial mansion.

Eco-friendly island mansion.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as a graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

The widow of Benjamin Franklin's brother became the first female newspaper editor in the United States.

An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.