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

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

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

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 "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

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

This "thrice-cursed" island is allegedly home to Captain Kidd's lost treasure.

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

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

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

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.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

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

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

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

This sculpture commemorates the first instance of an American president pardoning a turkey.

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

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

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