Places meltingknight Wants to Go

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

There are millions of temples in India, but only one prominent temple dedicated to the Hindu creator god.

The mysterious empty cupola behind the monumental arch points to an ancient prophecy of Delhi.

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

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

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

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

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

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

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

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

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

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.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

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

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

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