Places knewc Wants to Go

Eco-friendly island mansion.

The first ever diner included on the National Register of Historic Places is famous for its custard French toast.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

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

This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.

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

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

Final resting place of the actress famed for her roles in Dark Shadows and Dario Argento's Suspiria.

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

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.

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

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

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

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

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

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

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.