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Dozens of bronze sculptures are woven into the landscape along this trail.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

University of New Hampshire holds the documentation and artifacts of local alien abductees.

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

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

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

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

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

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

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

An actual piece of the Moon, brought down to Earth by Apollo 15.

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

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.