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

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

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

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

The last vessel built by a submarine pioneer stands as a monument to his legacy.

This large boulder was used as a lookout point by Revolutionary War militiamen.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Journey inside the bowels of this sperm whale sculpture.

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

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

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

This bookstore for weird fiction doubles as Providence’s de facto center for information about H.P. Lovecraft.

A work of art that pays homage to a Victorian timepiece in Providence.

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

A 132-year-old telescope continues to keep watch over the night skies above Providence.