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

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

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

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

Final resting place of the actress famed for her roles in Dark Shadows and Dario Argento's Suspiria.

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

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

A museum dedicated to antique toys, collectibles, and nostalgia.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

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

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

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 highest point in Connecticut was incorrectly memorialized before surveyors discovered the actual spot.

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

Thousands of American timepieces on display in the former clock-making capital of the country.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

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

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.