Places hymnherself Wants to Go

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.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

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

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

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.