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What appears to be an act of fruit vandalism is actually a cultural statement.

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

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.

Journey inside the bowels of this sperm whale sculpture.

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

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

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

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

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

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

An abandoned Victorian-era mill in the middle of modern Manchester.

An artificial tree in the University of Connecticut greenhouses holds a collection of orchids, mosses, and other tropical epiphytic plants.

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

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

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

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

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

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.

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

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