Places sweetleaf Wants to Go

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

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

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

Dr. Henry Cogswell hoped that his elaborate drinking fountains would dissuade people from drinking alcohol.

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

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

This sculpture commemorates the first instance of an American president pardoning a turkey.

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

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

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

An actual piece of the Moon, brought down to Earth by Apollo 15.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

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

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

Journey inside the bowels of this sperm whale sculpture.

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

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

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

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

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.

Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.

Site of the graveyard vine believed to be a curse on a family from the 1800s.