Places jandrewsbarry Wants to Go

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

The last vessel built by a submarine pioneer stands as a monument to his legacy.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

The owner of one of the oldest homes in Amherst had a unique request before the home could be turned into a museum.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

Connecticut sites linked to the only trial to ever use demonic possession as a criminal defense.

Retirement home where the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West passed away.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

The former residence of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, an enslaved African-American woman who successfully sued for her freedom.

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

A single room pays homage to the prodigious achievements of the 30th President of the United States.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

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

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

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

The site where chief Miantonomo of the Narraganset people was captured.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.