A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

This restaurant is devoted to celebrating Appalachia's cuisine.

After the comedian dissed a Connecticut town on his show, they named a sewage treatment plant after him.

This statue commemorates the importance of hat manufacturing to Danbury, once known as the "Hat City of the World."

A human attendant once directed car traffic from this structure before automated stoplights.

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

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

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

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

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

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

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

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

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

Despite the name, this narrow bridge isn't very dangerous at all.

The first newspaper printed by an expeditionary force was published in this colonial mansion.

An unexpected Easter egg lurks in the background of a cherub wall relief at the Breakers mansion.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

This beach-side arcade is believed to be the oldest penny arcade in America.

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

P-town goes wild for the malassadas at this 87-year-old institution.