Carroll, New Hampshire
Mount Washington Hotel
A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Madison, New Hampshire
Madison Boulder
A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.
Greens, New Hampshire
Garnet Pool
A long-forgotten Victorian swimming hole is still a fun spot for a dip.
New Haven, Connecticut
Skull and Bones Tomb
The headquarters of the famous Yale society.
Bristol, Connecticut
New England Carousel Museum
A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.
East Haddam, Connecticut
Johnsonville Village
This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.
Bethlehem, Connecticut
Abbey of Regina Laudis
These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.
New Haven, Connecticut
Grave of Sarah Winchester
Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.
Danbury, Connecticut
Hearthstone Castle
A castle inspired by medieval architecture is hidden in the woods of Connecticut.
Permanently Closed
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bloodroot Feminist Vegetarian Restaurant
This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.
Griswold, Connecticut
Jewett City Vampires
The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
P.T. Barnum Museum
A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.
East Lyme, Connecticut
Book Barn
With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.
Rocky Hill, Connecticut
Dinosaur State Park
The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.
Hebron, Connecticut
Gay City State Park
The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.
Groton, Connecticut
Gungywamp
The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.
Hartford, Connecticut
The Mark Twain House & Museum
The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.
Waterford, Connecticut
Seaside Sanatorium
Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.
New Haven, Connecticut
The Cushing Center
An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.
Stamford, Connecticut
Walker Library of The History of Human Imagination
An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.
Concord, Massachusetts
The Old Manse
The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.
Concord, Massachusetts
Brister Freeman Homestead Site
A stone marker dedicated to a Black veteran of the American Revolution who refused to leave his land near Walden Pond.
Concord, Massachusetts
The Wright Tavern
The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.
Sudbury, Massachusetts
Sudbury Grinding Stone
Once an integral part of Native American life, very few of these communal New England stones have survived to the present day.
