An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

This classic steam-powered train takes tourists on a nostalgic trip around the Connecticut River Valley.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

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

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

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

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

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

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

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.