Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bloodroot Feminist Vegetarian Restaurant
This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.
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Bridgeport, Connecticut
This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.
New Hartford, Connecticut
Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?
Hartford, Connecticut
This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.
Farmington, Connecticut
An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.
Hebron, Connecticut
The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.
Woodbury, Connecticut
A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.
Hartford, Connecticut
An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.
Hartford, Connecticut
A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.
Hartford, Connecticut
An actual piece of the Moon, brought down to Earth by Apollo 15.
New Haven, Connecticut
An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.
Waterbury, Connecticut
A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.
Newport, Rhode Island
The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Newport, Rhode Island
Oldest synagogue in the United States.
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
This cemetery is home to numerous granite headstones that are works of art unto themselves.
Providence, Rhode Island
A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."
Providence, Rhode Island
Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."
Providence, Rhode Island
This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.
Newport, Rhode Island
The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.
Jamestown, Rhode Island
Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as a graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.
Charlestown, Rhode Island
250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
East Providence, Rhode Island
An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.
Providence, Rhode Island
The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.
Newbury, New Hampshire
A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.