Places waywardwillard Wants to Go

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

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

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

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

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

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.

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

This "thrice-cursed" island is allegedly home to Captain Kidd's lost treasure.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

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

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

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.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

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

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.