Places liv0419 Wants to Go

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

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

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

This museum holds a fully-functional replica of the "Turtle," the first American submarine ever built.

Celebrating an art form with a collection of puppets from all over the world.

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.

A once-booming railroad left abandoned next to the Quinnipiac River marshes now intersects with a hiking trail.

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

This classic steam-powered train takes tourists on a nostalgic trip around the Connecticut River Valley.

Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

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

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

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

Public outcry led to this bridge's unique character which celebrates a giant frog battle and also sewing.

Thousands of American timepieces on display in the former clock-making capital of the country.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.

A tribute to the truly loyal dog who waited outside a hospital for his owner to come back.

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

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."