Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

Retirement home where the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West passed away.

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

A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.

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

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

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 jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

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

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

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

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

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

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

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

Public outcry led to this bridge's unique character which celebrates a giant frog battle and also sewing.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

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

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

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

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

This "thrice-cursed" island is allegedly home to Captain Kidd's lost treasure.