Places leomtk Wants to Go

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.

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

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

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

A small obelisk commemorates the launch site of the world's first liquid-fueled rocket.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.

The final resting place of a man who claimed that he could tame even the mightiest of bears.

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

A giant ant model welcomes visitors to an exhibit about symbiotic organisms that live with army ant colonies.

An artificial tree in the University of Connecticut greenhouses holds a collection of orchids, mosses, and other tropical epiphytic plants.

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

The remnants of a 19th-century ironmaking complex hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

These conical kilns measure an impressive 30 feet in diameter, and were once used to produce charcoal for a local blast furnace.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

The second largest maple syrup producer in the U.S. runs a high-tech operation.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.