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The farmhouse where a reclusive sculptor and printmaker created thousands of works.

One of the earliest graveyards in the region.

This statue commemorates the importance of hat manufacturing to Danbury, once known as the "Hat City of the World."

The gravestone of an eccentric Connecticut doctor features dinosaur tracks and a pair of fossil tree casts.

A statue commemorating a 16-year old girl's nighttime ride to raise a militia against attacking British troops.

A human attendant once directed car traffic from this structure before automated stoplights.

A humble air museum located in an original World War II aircraft factory.

The highest point in Connecticut was incorrectly memorialized before surveyors discovered the actual spot.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

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.

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

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

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

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

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

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

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

This post-war motel embodies a little-known, Miami-born architectural style.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

This lookout tower built in the 1930s is now an in-demand cabin with what might be the best view of the Seneca State Forest.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

Sip a cappuccino in the historic cafe that introduced them to the United States.