Places Nicky Pryde Wants to Go

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

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

The location of the pie company that gave a classic toy its name is now a parking lot.

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.

This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

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

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

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.

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

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

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

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

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

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

Connecticut sites linked to the only trial to ever use demonic possession as a criminal defense.

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

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

Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?