Now home to hardy plants, these sand and gravel dunes once held back a massive prehistoric lake.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

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

The former location of a platform that allowed passengers to safely wait for the trolley.

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

A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.

A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

Journey inside the bowels of this sperm whale sculpture.

The tragic tale of the dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia.