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.

The Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry is a unique place, home to one of the leading puppetry schools in the world as well as dozens of antique puppets and marionettes, making …

Home to such curiosities as the Feejee mermaid and the 4,000-year-old mummy Pa-Ib, the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport is dedicated to the colorful history of the King of the Humbugs.

Boothe Park proves the old adage, “If you have time, money, space, some significant eccentricities and the inclination to build stuff, then you too can create a bizarre memorial to yourself that …

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 …

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?

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: As indicated by the title, our friend The Old Leatherman actually stayed in this cave every 34 days, although with the uphill hike to reach it, this spot certainly doesn’t …

Like many suburban towns across this great state, Hamden claims a lonely ol’ street that seemingly exists as a home to everything from ghosts and phantom creatures to inbred hicks and supernatural …