An extra-wide chair built to accommodate the former president's big behind.

This statue honors a pillar of the early New Haven Black community.

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

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

One of the largest wooden ships ever built is honored by a steel sculpture evoking her once-superlative scale.

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

The location of the pie company that gave a classic toy its name is now a parking lot.

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

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

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

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

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

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

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

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

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 vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.