This Tudor-style mansion is home to the first roadside confectioner in the United States.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

As state high-points-by-elevation go this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

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

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

Public outcry led to this bridge's unique character which celebrates a giant frog battle and also sewing.

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

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

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

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

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

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.