The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

Amazing views of Long Island Sound can be seen from this mountaintop tower.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

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

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

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

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

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

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

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.

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

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

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

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

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

Family-run for more than a century, this pizzeria makes a unique mustard pie.