Places Temporary Hero Wants to Go

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

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.

An abandoned 146-acre summer resort slowly being reclaimed by nature.

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.

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

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

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

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

One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

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

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

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

It was founded by Ralph Nader to educate the public about an often-maligned area of law.

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

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

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

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

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

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

A castle inspired by medieval architecture is hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

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