Abandoned Places

There’s no official statistic proving it, but Connecticut might just lead the nation in supposedly haunted and abandoned mental health facilities. Here’s another one, this time in the heart of the state, …

Getting inside the abandoned sections of the Connecticut Asylum for the Insane is said to be pretty difficult.

Atop Mohawk Mountain sits a curious stone tower that has looked out over the Litchfield Hills for nearly a century. Update: We recently visited.

Damned Conn-ection: Mine Hill Preserve in Roxbury offers abandoned mine shafts, forges, blast furnaces, and other mining-related structures aplenty. Ghosts of CT Industrial Past! Oh, and bats!Noteworthy features/moments: This is a cool …

For more than 60 years, Fairfield Hills State Hospital in Newtown was home to the mentally ill. After it was closed, it sat empty and abandoned, holding the dark secrets of its …

Bolton is home to Gay City State Park, which features the remains of a once-thriving—and possibly, troubled—mill town. Not that there’s anything wrong with it. Update: We visit in Summer 2014.

East Haddam is home to an abandoned village that once was home to a thriving mill and almost became a Victorian Era tourist attraction.

One of the lesser-known sites in Connecticut is the Little Genesee Settlement. Genesee is a dual curiosity—an abandoned Colonial-era settlement and potentially an astronomical calendar or spiritual complex of sorts.

For a number of decades, the former popular destination that was Pleasure Beach was a ghost town, slowly rotting away. In 2014, the city of Bridgeport finally got around to cleaning it …