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

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.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

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

A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.

The tragic tale of the dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia.

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

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

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

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

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

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

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

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

Colorful collection of antique musical oddities.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

This humble hole-in-the-wall is home to an incredible pig ear sandwich and serious civil rights history.

This largely forgotten piece of Cold War history stands hidden in the woods just north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.