Weird Places

Connecticut is one of the most strange, creepy, weird, odd and fascinating states in New England (and possibly all of the Northeast). You’ll find an exhaustive list of oddities and unusual places here.

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Austin House, Hartford

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Weird Places

From the front, it looks like any grand home in Hartford, but from the side, well, The Austin House is not quite what it seems.


Timexpo Museum, Waterbury

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Weird Places

A 40-foot-high Easter Island head and a museum partially dedicated to the work of Thor Heyerdahl — in Waterbury? Come on, that’s just odd.


Gungywamp, Groton

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Damned Investigations, Weird Places

In Groton, there exists an unusual complex that has been dated back to nearly 2,000 B.C., with stone chambers and mysterious formations. Behold: Gungywamp!
UPDATE: We finally visit Gungywamp for ourselves to get the story. With lots of pictures, too!


The Glass House, New Canaan

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Weird Places

In the beautiful countryside of New Canaan sits an unusual structure, a unique residence designed (and inhabited) by famed architect and designer Philip Johnson.


Classic Auto Wash & Detail Center, Cromwell

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Damned Investigations, Weird Places

Sure, you can get your car washed in any number of fine establishments, but how many of them have a dinosaur ripping through the roof?


Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine, East Granby

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Damned Investigations, Hauntings, Weird Places

The first prison (as well as the first copper mine) in U.S. history has seen its fair share of heartache and tragedy — and also stories of ghost sightings and other paranormal activity.


Dinosaur State Park, Rocky Hill

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Damned Investigations, Weird Places

We may take it for granted, but a state park solely dedicated to the fossilized footprints from creatures that lived over 180 million years ago is sort of an unusual attraction. Plus, everyone loves dinosaurs!


Joseph Steward’s Museum of Natural and Other Curiosities, Hartford

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Damned Investigations, Weird Places

One of the first museums in North America, Joseph Steward’s Museum of Natural and Other Curiosities is testament to the fact that even over 200 years ago, people loved the damned!


Center Church, New Haven

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Damned Investigations, Weird Places

Center Church in New Haven is a little different from your normal centuries-old place of worship as it was built over a cemetery — not on, but over, as the original tombstones and graves sit as they have for 300 years in a crypt beneath the raised-up building.


Little People’s Village, Middlebury

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Damned Investigations, Weird Places

Little People’s Village in Middlebury is a complex of crumbling doll-sized houses that’s rumored to be the legacy of a crazy woman who thought she was “Queen of the Little People.” As with any good legend, “the story” and “the truth” are two quite different things.


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