Griswold, Connecticut
Jewett City Vampires
The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
New Haven, Connecticut
Crypt at Center Church-on-the-Green
137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
P.T. Barnum Museum
A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.
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Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bloodroot Feminist Vegetarian Restaurant
This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.
Hartford, Connecticut
Museum of Natural and Other Curiosities
A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.
New Haven, Connecticut
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.
Stratford, Connecticut
Zaffis Museum of the Paranormal
The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.
Woodstock, Vermont
Woodstock Town Crier
A bygone village occupation lives on via this quaint public chalkboard.
Cavendish, Vermont
Phineas Gage Memorial
The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.
Brattleboro, Vermont
Retreat Tower
Designed as a place for patients to take in the scenery, this tower has a dark history.
North Bennington, Vermont
Jennings Hall
The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."
New Haven, Vermont
Grave of Timothy Clark Smith
A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.
Danville, Vermont
The Forgotten Village at Greenbank's Hollow
Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.
South Hero, Vermont
Miniature Castles of South Hero
A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.
Stowe, Vermont
Emily’s Bridge
This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium
A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.
Montpelier, Vermont
Green Mount Cemetery
Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.
Corinth, Vermont
East Corinth
The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
Dog Chapel
A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.
Waterbury, Vermont
Ben & Jerry's Flavor Graveyard
The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.
Exeter, Rhode Island
Grave of Mercy Brown
The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Old Slater Mill
The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.
East Providence, Rhode Island
Little Neck Cemetery
An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.
Bristol, Rhode Island
Musée Patamécanique
The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.
