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Plainville, Connecticut

Hand-built, life-size monsters from classic horror films wait in detailed sets at America's longest-running horror attraction.

Orange, Connecticut

Thousands of candy dispensers, a factory viewing window, and the world's largest PEZ dispenser fill this shrine to tiny sugar bricks.

East Haddam, Connecticut

A Sherlock Holmes actor designed this stone fantasy house with trick locks, secret surveillance mirrors, and a private miniature railroad.

Willimantic, Connecticut

Four enormous copper frogs with gold-leaf eyes sit on giant thread spools above the Willimantic River.

Groton, Connecticut

Visitors can descend into the world's first nuclear-powered submarine and walk through the cramped machine that crossed beneath the North Pole.

New Haven, Connecticut

A nearly windowless brownstone known as the Tomb houses Yale's oldest and most mythologized secret society.

Winsted, Connecticut

Ralph Nader founded a museum about lawsuits, featuring a Corvair, dangerous products, and the cases that changed everyday safety.

East Granby, Connecticut

Connecticut turned a failed copper mine into a brutal underground prison where inmates were lowered into darkness.

Rocky Hill, Connecticut

A geodesic dome protects hundreds of Jurassic footprints discovered by accident during construction of a state building.

Hagerman, Connecticut

One of the world's richest Pliocene fossil deposits preserves horses, camels, otters, and other vanished animals.