Places Nox Wants to Go

American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

A humble air museum located in an original World War II aircraft factory.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

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

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

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

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.

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.

The remnants of a 19th-century ironmaking complex hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

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

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

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

An extra-wide chair built to accommodate the former president's big behind.

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

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

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

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