Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

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

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

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

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

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

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

Site of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary Vetsera.